Cotacol Hunting

Cotacol 2024 unwrapped

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

9742 registered users

have collected 85.180.313 Cotacol points

  • Bru did Rue Naimette yesterday
  • Hugues did Côte de Sorinne 1 days ago
  • Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg and Chaussée d'Ottenbourg 2 days ago
  • Julien did Route Merveilleuse, Route Merveilleuse, Côte du Château and 6 more 2 days ago
  • Adrien did Côte de Henripont and Côte de Henripont 2 days ago
  • Guillaume did Promenade du Val d'Argent 2 days ago
  • Sébastien did Tneuchamps 3 days ago
  • Karl did Côte de Trieu 3 days ago
  • 🖤💛❤️Jonathan did Côte de Dolembreux and Côte de Dolembreux 4 days ago
  • Kris did Langeheide 4 days ago
  • Florian did Congoberg and Congoberg 4 days ago
  • David did Côte du Bois de la Houppe 5 days ago
  • Tristan did Barrière de Bayet and Bâty des Monts 5 days ago
  • Jean-François did Côte de Namèche 5 days ago
  • Olivier did Taille du Vivier, Côte de Naninne and Tneuchamps 5 days ago
  • dirk did Schapenheide 5 days ago
  • Raphaël did Col de la Charlerie 5 days ago
  • Martin did Ferme Libert 6 days ago
  • Vincent did Côte de Combreuil 6 days ago
  • Robin did Côte de Bohan-Sud 6 days ago

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