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

9955 registered users

have collected 91.190.277 Cotacol points

  • Gilles did Côte de l'Abbaye today
  • Marc did Sur le Thier today
  • Lucas did Côte de Montquintin-Sud today
  • Jasper did Wijndries today
  • Boudewijn did La Levée, Côte de Chession and Côte de Brume-Sud today
  • Xav did Charly-des-Bois today
  • Olly did Eikenberg today
  • Toon did Chartreuzenberg today
  • Haecky did Côte du Lac de Genval today
  • Esther did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent today
  • Dirk did Côte de Romsée today
  • Joris did Roeselberg today
  • Wim did Congoberg and Mon Plaisir today
  • Karel did Toverberg today
  • Michel did Mon Plaisir and Congoberg today
  • Samuel did La Croisette today
  • 🇧🇪 did Katteberg today
  • Koen did Congoberg today
  • raphael did La Roche Sainte-Catherine today
  • Steven did Alsberg today

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