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

9175 registered users

have collected 77.485.129 Cotacol points

  • Jorim did Plattenberg today
  • Christophe did Moensberg and Alsemberg today
  • p did Helling van Planck today
  • Noah did Côte de Becco and Côte du Rosier-Est today
  • William did Plattenberg today
  • Sébastien did Langeheide, Taille Thérèse, Tienne du Golf and 1 more today
  • Eddy did Tuitenberg today
  • Pascal did Mur de Huy today
  • Chris did Côte de Loyers today
  • Arthur did Tienne Vanasse-Nord today
  • Laurent did Chemin du Comte, Côte de Gives and Mur d'Amay today
  • Juan did Côte d'Awenne-Ouest, Route Barrière de Champlon and Le Crawy today
  • Julie did Montagne Sainte-Walburge today
  • Julien did Côte de Colonster today
  • Pierre did Ruelle Commère today
  • Maxime did Côte de Florzé and Côte du Hornay today
  • Kyle did Kesterbeekbos and Bruine Put today
  • Tia did Côte de Desnie yesterday
  • Tuan did Côte de Brume-Est I yesterday
  • Sven did Côte de Brume-Est I and Mont-le-Soie yesterday

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