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

9719 registered users

have collected 84.838.549 Cotacol points

  • Dieter did Kauterhof today
  • Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg and Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today
  • Sébastien did Tneuchamps and Tneuchamps today
  • Nicolas did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent today
  • Stefaan did Puttenberg [Ledeberg] yesterday
  • Florian did Route des Panoramas yesterday
  • Alister did Côte de l'observatoire yesterday
  • jules did Côte de Niaster yesterday
  • Bastien did Charly-des-Bois yesterday
  • Lars did Côte des Trois Frontières, Helling van Planck and Kasteelstraat yesterday
  • Robert did Côte de Colonster yesterday
  • Ward did Congoberg yesterday
  • Claude did La Rue Villers yesterday
  • Jul did Hurdumont, Les Plachettes, Ganzenberg and 2 more yesterday
  • X did Côte de la Forêt yesterday
  • Eugenie did Côte de Brume-Est I yesterday
  • Rutger did Chartreuzenberg yesterday
  • Florent did Côte de Nolaumont and Mur de Durbuy yesterday
  • Bert did Moskesstraat yesterday
  • Neal did Moskesstraat yesterday

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