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
10014 registered users
have collected 95.476.431 Cotacol points
- Antoine did Côte de Ben-Ahin today
- Xav did Charly-des-Bois today
- Greg did Côte de Niaster today
- Steven did Wijndries, Chartreuzenberg and Roeselberg today
- Tom did Ganzenberg today
- Thibault did Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest today
- Christophe did Holstraat today
- Xavier did Côte de Fraiture, Côte de Trasenster-Nord and Côte de Hansez today
- Jim did Côte du Rosier-Sud and Sur le Thier today
- Dimitri did Côte de Henripont today
- Pas did Froidbermont today
- Dominique did Côte du Château de Latour today
- 𝓕𝓻é𝓭é𝓻𝓲𝓬 did Le Stockai today
- philippe did Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy today
- Danny did Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Le Rossignol today
- Noah did Côte de la Baraque Michel-Est and Côte Barrage de la Gileppe today
- Bruno did Côte de Sûre today
- Eric did Côte du Caillou qui bique today
- Luc did Le Grinquier-Ouest today
- Nicolas did Côte de Saint-Denis today



