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

9700 registered users

have collected 84.522.882 Cotacol points

  • kevin did Felix Sohiestraat/Solheide yesterday
  • Stijn did Schapenheide and Toverberg yesterday
  • Tim did Côte d'Hodister and Haussire-Sud yesterday
  • brecht did Le Rossignol and Le Grinquier-Ouest yesterday
  • Laurent did La Croix-Maillard yesterday
  • Miguelito did Baneberg yesterday
  • Victor did Sur le Thier yesterday
  • Kristof did Hengstenberg, Kardaan, Moskesstraat and 9 more yesterday
  • Guillaume did Côte du Bois de Cerfontaine yesterday
  • Nand did Smeysberg yesterday
  • Alex did Charly-des-Bois yesterday
  • Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent yesterday
  • Arnaud did Tienne Vanasse-Sud-Ouest yesterday
  • Axel did Le Grand Virage yesterday
  • Ed did Côte du Fayi yesterday
  • olivier did Côte de Facqueval yesterday
  • Mathias did Presseux Rux yesterday
  • Johnny did Presseux Rux yesterday
  • Tom did Côte de Tiège yesterday
  • Ben did Moskesstraat yesterday

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