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
9397 registered users
have collected 80.677.683 Cotacol points
- Sébastien did Côte de Sart-Custinne today
- Cyril did Côte de Sorinne today
- Gert did Rue des Laidmonts, Côte de Besinne, Côte de Foy and 1 more today
- Maxime did Côte de Brume-Est I, Côte d'Aisomont and Côte de Spineux today
- Pierre did Côte de Provedroux, Côte du Rosier-Nord II and Côte du Rosier-Est today
- Gilles did Cote de Sarolay today
- Nicolas did Mur de Huy today
- David did Côte de Tintange-Nord and Côte de Wardin today
- Antoine did Moskesstraat today
- Nastasia did Côte de la Redoute today
- jules did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent today
- Reinoud did Côte de Lorcé today
- Alexandre did Côte du Rosier-Est today
- Filip did Moskesstraat today
- Amaury did Côte du Bois de Sautour today
- Claude did Mogimont today
- Chris did Côte du Lac de Genval today
- Daniel did Côte de Romsée today
- Karel did Toverberg today
- Alex did La Croix des Cheniats and Rue de la Prelle today