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

9971 registered users

have collected 93.146.734 Cotacol points

  • Raf did L'Ancienne Barrière today
  • Thomas did Smeysberg today
  • John did Wijndries today
  • Dylan did Berendries today
  • Steven did Côte du Pont Alsort today
  • Lorens did Kesterbeekbos today
  • Laurent did Côte d'Avionpuits today
  • Gigi did Kortekeer today
  • Pas did Aux Pieds Roux and La Haute Folie today
  • Nicolas did Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Les Plachettes today
  • Damien did Mossiat, Les Deux Tiennes and Côte des Sept Meuses-Nord today
  • Patrick did Moskesstraat today
  • Rutger did Roeselberg today
  • Je did La Roche Sainte-Catherine today
  • Aubin did Tneuchamps today
  • Thot did Côte de Dohan today
  • Eric did Route du Christ, Côte de Bohan-Sud and Côte de Conrad today
  • Joeri did Baneberg today
  • Wes did Rue Reine Astrid today
  • Jerome did Côte de Dolembreux today

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