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

9791 registered users

have collected 86.339.731 Cotacol points

  • Sébastien did Fond de Nîmes today
  • Gregory did Ganzenberg today
  • Jens did Côte de Romsée today
  • Xavier did Hautregard, Côte de Hézée, Côte de Foret and 3 more today
  • Olivier did Achterberg today
  • Jean-Luc did Sur le Stockeu today
  • Maxime did Smeysberg today
  • Olivier did Alsberg today
  • Jozua did Katteberg today
  • Aurelio did Côte des Trois Frontières today
  • 🖤💛❤️Jonathan did Côte de Dolembreux today
  • David did Côte du Bois de la Houppe, Groeneweg and Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest today
  • Mattéo did Côte de la France and Le Thier de Scry yesterday
  • Fr did Côte de Bousée, Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest, La Croisette and 2 more yesterday
  • Christophe did Berendries yesterday
  • Felipe did Congoberg and Bosberg yesterday
  • Joeri did Côte du Sacré-Coeur, Le Fond Marie, Chemin du Paradis and 1 more yesterday
  • Joris did Tienne des Français yesterday
  • Rony did Tienne à Pîres yesterday
  • Hubert did Sur le Thier, Côte de Foret and Côte de Hézée yesterday

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