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

9782 registered users

have collected 86.009.898 Cotacol points

  • Dominique did Ganzenberg yesterday
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
  • Lars did Katteberg yesterday
  • Alexandre did Côte de Colonster yesterday
  • Jul did Berendries yesterday
  • Miguel did Côte de Namèche yesterday
  • Bastien did Côte de Noirhat yesterday
  • Jean-Michel did Montagne de la Croix yesterday
  • jeremy did Rue Reine Astrid and Côte d'Avister yesterday
  • R did Les Trys yesterday
  • Florian did Chemin des Mélèzes yesterday
  • Xavier did Les Bansions-Est, Côte de Creppe, Côte d'Oneux and 1 more yesterday
  • Michiel did Holstraat yesterday
  • Thibaut did Triple Mur du Monty yesterday
  • Joris did Côte de Besinne, Côte de Warnant, Côte de Foy and 2 more yesterday
  • Rk did Sur le Thier, L'Ancienne Barrière and Côte du Rosier-Est yesterday
  • John did Baneberg yesterday
  • Jens did Les Forges I yesterday
  • Kris did Côte du Petit-Liry, Côte de l'Antrogne and Le Terme yesterday
  • Danny did Volkegemberg yesterday

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