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

9719 registered users

have collected 84.833.108 Cotacol points

  • Robert did Côte de Colonster today
  • Claude did La Rue Villers today
  • Christophe did Côte de Lorcé today
  • Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent, Côte de Colonster and Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent today
  • Maarten did Kauterhof today
  • Kris did Overberg today
  • Igor did La Rampe de Renouppe and Côte de la Ville Haute today
  • Francois did Mur de Huy and Côte d'Ereffe today
  • François did Côte de Loyers today
  • Olivier did Wijndries and Alsberg today
  • Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today
  • Sébastien did Tneuchamps and Tneuchamps today
  • Laurent did Côte de Stockis yesterday
  • Pierre did Côte de Noirhat yesterday
  • Ed did Rue du Calvaire yesterday
  • Bru did Montagne Sainte-Walburge and Montagne Sainte-Walburge yesterday
  • Yannick did Charly-des-Bois yesterday
  • Troch did Heideberg and Chartreuzenberg yesterday
  • Thomas did Rue du Mystere 1 days ago
  • Didier did Tour de Muache 1 days ago

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