Cotacol Hunting

How it all started

The COTACOL is a belgian reference book about cycling uphill, made by Daniel Gobert and Jean-Pierre Legros in 1989. In it are descriptions of the thousand toughest climbs for cyclists. Each climb is described by several facts: name, a short description, height, grade, length, what state the road surface is in, average climbing time for an amateur or a professional road cyclist. The combined authors measured 1.869.800 km, rode up a height of 112.396 meters and measured nearly 30.000 data points to compose this book. Each hill has a so-called COTACOL score. This score is determined using several parameters: grade, length, road surface. A higher score means a tougher climb. More than 30 years later, some cycling & tech enthousiasts virtually got together and built apps, web sites and integrated with Strava, so that the modern cyclist can now plan rides to conquer as much Cotacols as possible and automatically flag them when integrating with Strava.

 

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Combined achievements

9960 registered users

have collected 92.034.991 Cotacol points

  • Raf did Côte de Xhierfomont today
  • Nicolas did Côte de Boucquemont today
  • Arno did Kuiperenberg today
  • Xav did Charly-des-Bois today
  • Miguel did Côte du Chant d'Oiseaux today
  • 🇧🇪 did Kuiperenberg today
  • Raphaël did Fond de Nîmes and Côte de Salet today
  • Jacky did Tienne du Dragon today
  • Fred did Kuiperenberg today
  • Chris did Vieille Route de France today
  • Romain did Côte de Bonnerue today
  • Denis did Paolaberg and Trassersweg today
  • Laurent did Côte de la Redoute today
  • Loco did Rue Nouveau Monde and Côte de Niaster today
  • Kevin did Baneberg today
  • Sébastien did Le Chaud Thier, Rue des Courteaux and Thier des Critchons today
  • Xavier did Côte de Tancrémont and Côte de Foret today
  • Arnaud did Côte de Bonnerue today
  • john did Rue de la Giloterie, Chemin de la Fontaine, Rue du Petit-Try and 2 more today
  • Jonathan did Plattenberg today

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