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

9957 registered users

have collected 91.571.331 Cotacol points

  • sylvain did Côte de Foret today
  • Xav did Charly-des-Bois today
  • Jean did Côte du Chant d'Oiseaux today
  • Frédéric did Triple Mur du Monty today
  • Greg did Côte de Niaster today
  • Clement did Sur le Thier today
  • Daniel did Côte de Romsée today
  • Dirk did Holstraat today
  • Rutger did Roeselberg today
  • Rudy did Côte des Sept Meuses-Nord, Côte de Besinne, Tienne Hinraut and 5 more today
  • Dominique did Côte de l'Eau Rouge today
  • Jean-François did Côte de Dochamps-Ouest today
  • Adrien did Côte de Charneux today
  • Dems did Le Trou du Diable today
  • Stijn did Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg, Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest, Le Grinquier-Ouest and 2 more today
  • jules did Côte de Niaster today
  • Xavier did Rue Drabe and Côte de Sainte-Croix today
  • Aline did Côte de Sart-Custinne today
  • Alain did Fonds de Lustin, Côte des Quatre Chemins, Le Charreau de Dréhance and 1 more today
  • Tom did Côte de la Redoute, Côte du Hornay, Jevoumont and 1 more today

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