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.
Combined achievements
10008 registered users
have collected 95.367.724 Cotacol points
- Théo did Côte du Lac de Genval yesterday
- Charles did Thier des Critchons and Montagne Sainte-Walburge yesterday
- A did Route Barrière de Champlon yesterday
- Massimiliano did Triple Mur du Monty yesterday
- LAURENS did Thier Bégot and Thier d'Amry yesterday
- Thomas did Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg yesterday
- pierre-yves did La Chausseé Romaine yesterday
- Rutger did Roeselberg yesterday
- Gunther did Le Grinquier-Ouest yesterday
- Guy did Rue du Petit-Try yesterday
- Jul did Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Berendries yesterday
- Montagna did Côte de Combreuil yesterday
- Joeri did Chartreuzenberg yesterday
- Max did Côte de Verlaine-sur-Ourthe yesterday
- Tristan did Côte de Becco 1 days ago
- Sam did Wijndries 1 days ago
- Sebastien did Rue du Cimitière 1 days ago
- Antoine did Côte du Hornay and Côte de Florzé 1 days ago
- Louis did Côte de Chôdes 1 days ago
- Stephanie did Congoberg 1 days ago



