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

9600 registered users

have collected 83.083.065 Cotacol points

  • Christophe did Col de la Croix-Jubaru yesterday
  • Thibaut did Le Mont Coupé yesterday
  • Nicolas did Côte de la Casmatrie, Côte de Trasenster-Nord, Côte de la Redoute and 1 more yesterday
  • Pepijn did Koppenberg and Paterberg yesterday
  • Ludwig did Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
  • jules did Habiemont and Hes Grevis yesterday
  • Mathis did Thier du Mont yesterday
  • Emmanuel did Rue Saint-Roch, Côte de Dochamps-Ouest and Rue Saint-Roch yesterday
  • Carlos did Côte du Pied Monti yesterday
  • Olivier did Kauterhof yesterday
  • Sean did Katteberg, Thier Bégot, De Burchtheuvel and 1 more yesterday
  • Franck did Smeysberg yesterday
  • Andrés did Moskesstraat yesterday
  • Jos did Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg, Berg Ten Houtte, Kortekeer and 1 more yesterday
  • Lieve did Kasteelstraat yesterday
  • Jose did Côte d'Oignies yesterday
  • Hugo did Helling van Altembroeck yesterday
  • frank did Le Rossignol yesterday
  • Kristof did Rue Saint-Roch yesterday
  • Boudewijn did Rue Saint-Roch yesterday

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