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

9723 registered users

have collected 84.891.793 Cotacol points

  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
  • Stefaan did Puttenberg [Ledeberg] yesterday
  • Didier did Tour de Muache yesterday
  • Thomas did Kruisberg yesterday
  • Pascal did Overberg yesterday
  • Reinoud did Rue des Ruwales, Chemin des Blés, Les Carrières Montigny and 4 more yesterday
  • Mathieu did Holstraat yesterday
  • Thibault did Mossiat and Allée de Lairbois yesterday
  • Greg did Côte de Niaster yesterday
  • Rk did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
  • Sander did Tienne du Golf yesterday
  • Bram did Trassersweg yesterday
  • jules did Côte du Ry d'Oneux yesterday
  • olivier did Côte de Facqueval yesterday
  • quinten did Heideberg yesterday
  • Geneviève did Grand Route de Rocroi and Côte du Château yesterday
  • Xavier did Côte de Bouny and La Voie des Chars yesterday
  • Florent did Côte de Dochamps-Ouest and Côte de Soy-Ouest yesterday
  • Nick did Congoberg, Kuiperenberg, Tuitenberg and 1 more yesterday
  • Pieter did Bosberg, Tuitenberg and Kuiperenberg yesterday

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