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

9859 registered users

have collected 87.926.090 Cotacol points

  • Grégoire did Côte de Cornillon yesterday
  • Rob. did Côte de Surister yesterday
  • Florent did Côte du Douaire yesterday
  • Denis did Côte de Trasenster-Nord, Fond des Cris and Côte de Foret yesterday
  • Greg did Habiemont and Côte de Niaster yesterday
  • Julian did Côte de Saint-Denis yesterday
  • Mathieu did Moskesstraat and Chaussée d'Ottenbourg yesterday
  • Laurent did Les Kimones yesterday
  • Raf did Côte d'Aisomont yesterday
  • Pascal did Toverberg yesterday
  • Thomas did Côte de Trieu and Ganzenberg yesterday
  • A did Route Barrière de Champlon yesterday
  • Vincent did Sur le Thier yesterday
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
  • Ruben did Pinval yesterday
  • Joffrey did Côte de Ligneuville yesterday
  • Bart did Kruisberg yesterday
  • Nicolas did Beau-Site-Sud-Ouest, La Croisette and Le Saule Pendu yesterday
  • Pablo did Molenberg yesterday
  • Rutger did Roeselberg yesterday

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