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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.
Hosting cotacol costs a few hundred euros per month. And while we try to keep Cotacol free for all of you to use, any help or support is welcome. This can easily be done by the click of the button, below. Sam.
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have collected 84.702.583 Cotacol points
- Mathieu did Tienne Vanasse-Nord today
- Jean-François did Côte de Florzé, Chambralles, Côte de Fraiture and 2 more today
- Greg did Pré des Vaux today
- Sam did Kasteelstraat and Helling van Planck today
- Johan did Berendries today
- Robert did Côte de Foret today
- Arnaud did Tienne des Français and Tienne Vanasse-Sud-Ouest today
- Bert did Côte de Bierleux-Bas, Mont-le-Soie and Thier du Mont today
- Laurens did Côte de Landelies today
- Mario did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent, Petite Commune, Côte de Bouny and 6 more today
- VANSCHOENWINKEL did Côte de Foret today
- Jonas did Grand Route de Rocroi and Côte du Château today
- Stefaan did Bosberg and Congoberg today
- Pascal did Paterberg today
- Martin did Le Mur de Strivay and Chambralles today
- Lieven did Paterberg and Spinessenberg/Fiertelmeers today
- sylvain did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent and Côte de Dolembreux today
- Cross did Le Bourliquet, Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest and La Croisette today
- Gunther did Le Grinquier-Ouest today
- Samuel did Mont Saint-Rock, Côte du Coron Grand-Peine and Les Gaudys today
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