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

9733 registered users

have collected 85.090.614 Cotacol points

  • Joris did Les Ornias yesterday
  • Kevin did La Voie Collas yesterday
  • Frederic did Moskesstraat, Terspout and Smeysberg yesterday
  • Richie did Congoberg yesterday
  • Benoit did Côte du Hordin and Côte du Fayi yesterday
  • jérémie did Les Maltrixhes yesterday
  • Sébastien did Thier des Malades yesterday
  • Johan did Côte du Hornay yesterday
  • Jonathan did Côte de Samrée yesterday
  • scott did Les Carrières Montigny yesterday
  • Maximilien did Côte du Bois-la-Dame yesterday
  • Xavier did Côte de Colonster yesterday
  • Ray did Chemin des Blés yesterday
  • Jos did Kortekeer, Berg Ten Houtte, Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg and 1 more yesterday
  • Simon did Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest yesterday
  • Nand did Moskesstraat yesterday
  • Jérôme did Sur le Thier yesterday
  • Jan did Côte de Trieu yesterday
  • Stijn did Helling van Kraai yesterday
  • Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg yesterday

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