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

9717 registered users

have collected 84.807.122 Cotacol points

  • Didier did Tour de Muache yesterday
  • Aloïs did Côte de Noirhat yesterday
  • Christian did Côte de la Ferme de Sart yesterday
  • Axel did La Croix-Maillard yesterday
  • Luc did Côte de Trieu and Le Grinquier-Ouest yesterday
  • Tom did Côte de la Redoute yesterday
  • Florent did Col de Ronchinne yesterday
  • Guillaume did Tienne Hinraut, Les Trys and Tienne aux Clochers yesterday
  • Julien did Côte de Bauche, Trou Perdu, Côte de Loyers and 11 more yesterday
  • Jelle did Spinessenberg/Fiertelmeers yesterday
  • Troch did Heideberg, Heideberg and Chartreuzenberg yesterday
  • Laurent did Mont Saint-Rock yesterday
  • Antoine did Côte d'Avister yesterday
  • Robby did Katteberg yesterday
  • Thomas did Rue du Mystere 1 days ago
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée 1 days ago
  • Néo did Chêne Fleurette 1 days ago
  • Jordan did Côte du Hordin and Côte du Hordin 1 days ago
  • Thomas did Le Mont Coupé 1 days ago
  • Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent 1 days ago

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