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

9969 registered users

have collected 92.573.747 Cotacol points

  • Filip did Roeselberg today
  • Sébastien did Thier du Mont today
  • Kevin did Mur des Sept Meuses-Est today
  • Greg did Côte de Niaster today
  • Romain did Le Stockai today
  • Steve did Hautregard today
  • 🏊🚴🏃Steph did Kuiperenberg today
  • Sébastien did Petite Commune and Thier Laly today
  • Debaes-Baezie did Baneberg today
  • Julien did Mon Plaisir today
  • Damien did Rue de l'Église, Côte du Burnon, Côte de Hotte and 4 more today
  • Jeroen did Toverberg today
  • Antonina did Les Waides today
  • Mario did Parc à Gibier and Côte de Hives today
  • Jose did Côte du Caillou qui bique today
  • Gert did Côte de Xhierfomont, Côte de Niaster, Côte d'Aisomont and 2 more today
  • Christian did Kauterhof today
  • Peter did Kortekeer today
  • Denis did La Goëtte, Ruelle Toussaint, Le Tienne de Mont and 5 more today
  • Paul did Côte de la Casmatrie and Les Waides today

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