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

10003 registered users

have collected 94.985.192 Cotacol points

  • Jeremie did Côte d'Avister yesterday
  • François did Côte de Gives yesterday
  • Jean-Philippe did Côte du Bois Eloi and Côte du Bois Eloi yesterday
  • Grégoire did Côte de Stockay yesterday
  • Bastien did Côte de Charneux yesterday
  • Laurent did Roche à Frêne yesterday
  • Robin did La Haute Folie yesterday
  • Achille did Côte de Salet yesterday
  • Stephane did La Chausseé Romaine yesterday
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
  • Guillaume did La Rochette yesterday
  • Pierre did Côte de Noirhat yesterday
  • Greg did Côte de Niaster yesterday
  • Stefan did Trou Bourbon and Côte du Barrage Nisramont yesterday
  • Michael did Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
  • Raf did Côte de Xhierfomont yesterday
  • Marine did Côte de Foret yesterday
  • Jimmy did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
  • Christophe did Route Merveilleuse and Chemin des Blés yesterday
  • Rik did Côte de Saint-Denis yesterday

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