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

9718 registered users

have collected 84.810.805 Cotacol points

  • Kristof did Moskesstraat today
  • Florent did Haussire-Sud today
  • Stefanie did Côte d'Ovifat today
  • Jonathan did Plattenberg today
  • Bru did Montagne Sainte-Walburge and Vieux-Thier de Tilleur today
  • Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent today
  • hugo did Fond de Nîmes, Col de la Charlerie and Tienne aux Pierres today
  • Sébastien did Tneuchamps and Tneuchamps today
  • Antoine did Côte du Fayi today
  • Antoine did Côte d'Avister, Côte d'Avister and Côte d'Avister today
  • Claude did La Rue Villers yesterday
  • kevin did Côte de Lomré yesterday
  • Didier did Tour de Muache and Tour de Muache yesterday
  • Jacky did Les Robertsarts yesterday
  • Jari did Berendries yesterday
  • Nicky did Katteberg yesterday
  • Troch did Heideberg, Chartreuzenberg and Heideberg yesterday
  • Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg yesterday
  • Aloïs did Côte de Noirhat 2 days ago
  • Gianni did Baneberg 2 days ago

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