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.
Combined achievements
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have collected 84.831.194 Cotacol points
- Laurent did Côte de Stockis yesterday
- Pierre did Côte de Noirhat yesterday
- Ed did Rue du Calvaire yesterday
- Bru did Montagne Sainte-Walburge and Montagne Sainte-Walburge yesterday
- Yannick did Charly-des-Bois yesterday
- Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent yesterday
- Troch did Heideberg and Chartreuzenberg yesterday
- Sébastien did Tneuchamps yesterday
- Thomas did Rue du Mystere 1 days ago
- Didier did Tour de Muache 1 days ago
- stijn did Côte d'Insemont, Côte d'Anseremme and Côte Marie-Thérèse 1 days ago
- Anaëlle did Heideberg 1 days ago
- Germain did Côte de Tiège 2 days ago
- Timothé did Fond de Nîmes and Col du Marly 2 days ago
- Julien did Chemin de Mormont and Côte du Pré Lacroix 2 days ago
- François did Moskesstraat 2 days ago
- Hans did Thier des Malades 2 days ago
- Milan did Roeselberg 2 days ago
- Glenn did Rue du Mystere 2 days ago
- Benjamin did Berendries and Berendries 2 days ago



