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

9904 registered users

have collected 89.610.719 Cotacol points

  • Steve did Côte Maquisard today
  • Steve did Wijndries today
  • Nand did Smeysberg and Côte de Wanne today
  • Dominique did Côte des Rappes and Côte de l'Eau Rouge today
  • Jari did Trou Robin today
  • Jan did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today
  • brecht did Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest and Le Gauquier today
  • Clement did Côte de Trieu today
  • 🖤💛❤️Jonathan did Côte de Dolembreux and Côte de Dolembreux today
  • Steven did Puttenberg [Ledeberg] yesterday
  • Gert did Achterberg and Berendries yesterday
  • Pas did Côte de Bellaire, Heids des Chênes, Rue des Courteaux and 1 more yesterday
  • Jef did Bruine Put yesterday
  • Frédéric did Côte de Brume-Est I and L'Ancienne Barrière yesterday
  • Thibault did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
  • Guillaume did Côte de Xhierfomont and Côte de Werbomont yesterday
  • Jérémy did Côte de Dochamps-Est and Côte de Hives yesterday
  • Arthur did Côte de Saint-Denis yesterday
  • Augustin did Côte de la Haute-Marlagne yesterday
  • Pieter did Berendries yesterday

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