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

9954 registered users

have collected 91.085.124 Cotacol points

  • Claude did La Rue Villers today
  • LAURENS did Katteberg today
  • Davy did Roeselberg today
  • Wouter did Tuitenberg today
  • Joris did Chemin de Lausprelles today
  • Clement did Côte du Rosier-Est today
  • Dominique did Côte de l'Eau Rouge today
  • philippe did Côte Marie-Thérèse, Ferme d'En Haut and Côte de Salet today
  • Christophe did Côte de Niaster today
  • Hannes did Achterberg today
  • Danny did Côte du Bois de la Houppe today
  • Victor did Côte de Lorcé, Côte de Trasenster-Nord, Côte de Foret and 2 more today
  • Alexis did Côte de Lorcé today
  • Thierry did Côte de Tancrémont today
  • Brice did Hautregard today
  • Pekka did Helling van Altembroeck, Kasteelstraat and Helling van Planck today
  • Nicky did Sur le Stockeu, Les Quartiers and Le Trou Bouhay today
  • Vincent did Les Kimones today
  • Florent did La Rochette today
  • Matiz did Charly-des-Bois today

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