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

9731 registered users

have collected 85.021.730 Cotacol points

  • Tristan did Lambaitienne today
  • Pieter did Trassersweg today
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée today
  • Cotacol did Smeysberg today
  • Germain did Chemin du Cimetière, Côte des Trois Frontières and Côte Barrage de la Gileppe today
  • Michael did Holstraat today
  • Adrien did Bois de Harre today
  • Julien did Chemin des Blés today
  • Pierre did Côte de la Ferme de Sart today
  • Pierre did Bois de Harre today
  • Jean-Luc did La Haute Levée and Sur le Stockeu today
  • Jérémy did Charly-des-Bois today
  • Ray did Côte de Sorinne today
  • Loïc did Côte de la Redoute today
  • Enzo did Smeysberg today
  • François did Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Ganzenberg today
  • Jonathan did Côte d'Ereffe today
  • Thomas did Eikenberg and Wolvenberg today
  • Thibaut did Mur des Sept Meuses-Est, Côte du Château de Spontin and Côte de Bauche today
  • Edward did Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg and Kortekeer today

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