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

9957 registered users

have collected 91.606.901 Cotacol points

  • Davy did Wijndries and Alsberg today
  • Aymeric did Côte de Jevigne today
  • Raphaël did Côte de Jevigne today
  • Laurent did Côte de la Grande Bruyère and Mont Saint-Rock today
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée today
  • Jeroen did Côte du Rosier-Est, Côte Maquisard, Côte d'Amermont and 1 more today
  • Martin did Côte de Foret, Côte de la Casmatrie and Côte de Trasenster-Nord today
  • Adrien did Le Trou today
  • jules did Côte de Lorcé, Côte du Rosier-Nord II and Côte d'Aisomont today
  • Dieter did Congoberg and Tuitenberg today
  • Antoine did Le Bois d'Oisquercq today
  • Haecky did Alsberg today
  • Joachim did Alsberg today
  • Sébastien did Côte du Bois de Beyne, Rue Bordelais, La Heid de Mael I and 1 more today
  • Bert did Plattenberg today
  • Gilles did Cote de Sarolay today
  • Stijn did Les Quartiers and Côte de Werhai today
  • Dems did Le Trou du Diable today
  • Quinten did Col de la Croix-Jubaru today
  • Hervé did Côte la Taille des Agneaux today

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