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

9395 registered users

have collected 80.648.631 Cotacol points

  • Laurent did Côte de la Redoute and Côte de Wanne yesterday
  • Jonathan did Smeysberg yesterday
  • Kristof did Côte d'Exbomont, Sur le Thier, Les Bansions-Ouest and 6 more yesterday
  • Jeroen did Schapenheide yesterday
  • Elke did Côte des Trois Frontières and Helling van Planck yesterday
  • De did Steigung von Hepscheid and Côte du Rosier-Nord II yesterday
  • Steven did Chartreuzenberg yesterday
  • Christophe did Vidaigneberg yesterday
  • Victor did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg and Moskesstraat yesterday
  • Dominique did Roeselberg yesterday
  • Erik did Côte de Cugnon, Le Saut des Sorcières and Mogimont yesterday
  • Pieter did Route des Ardennes yesterday
  • johan did L'Escalette yesterday
  • scott did Côte d'Ereffe yesterday
  • Jose did Côte d'Ereffe yesterday
  • Wes did Thier Bégot yesterday
  • Tanguy did Les Plachettes yesterday
  • Koen did Alsberg yesterday
  • Wim did L'Egypte, Congoberg, Côte de Rogissart and 1 more yesterday
  • Wim did Holstraat yesterday

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