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.
Combined achievements
9714 registered users
have collected 84.764.132 Cotacol points
- Edwin did Helling van Altembroeck yesterday
- Frederic did Helling van Planck yesterday
- Greg did Côte de Niaster yesterday
- Jérémy did Col de la Croix-Jubaru yesterday
- François did Côte de Gives yesterday
- Noah did Côte de Winamplanche and Côte de Becco yesterday
- Wim did Charly-des-Bois yesterday
- Dieter did Côte de Borlon yesterday
- Quentin did Mur de Huy yesterday
- Alexandre did Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy yesterday
- Christophe did Côte de Niaster and Côte St-Roch yesterday
- Xavier did Côte de Neuville, Warmonfosse and Côte de Tancrémont yesterday
- Frédéric did Côte de Namèche yesterday
- Jonathan did Côte de Tintange-Nord yesterday
- Astrid did Plattenberg yesterday
- Laurent did Côte de Tintange-Nord yesterday
- Michel did Les Communes and Thier Riga yesterday
- Neal did Vieille Montagne, Côte de Warnant, Côte de Besinne and 1 more yesterday
- Bert did Chemin des Etangs, Côte de Besinne, Côte de Warnant and 1 more yesterday
- Luc did Route de Sohier yesterday



