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
9941 registered users
have collected 90.288.080 Cotacol points
- Luca did Côte de l'observatoire today
- Totte did Côte des Trois Frontières today
- Christophe did Rue Vieille Chera today
- Michael did Côte de Sûre today
- Romain did Côte de Sûre today
- Greg did Côte de Niaster today
- Xav did Charly-des-Bois today
- Adrien did Bois de Harre today
- De did Drève de Stadt today
- Olivier did Côte de Romsée today
- Thot did Côte de Colonster today
- Rutger did Roeselberg today
- Thibault did Hurdumont, Les Plachettes and Le Rossignol today
- Davy did Wijndries today
- Nicolas did Hurdumont, Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg today
- Danny did Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Le Rossignol today
- Tmas did Côte de Bérismenil and Côte d'Ortho today
- Quentin did Côte de Fraiture, Chambralles and Côte de Facqueval today
- scott did Charreau de Bonsecours, Côte de Foy and Les Carrières Montigny today
- Rob. did Côte Barrage de la Gileppe today



