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

9803 registered users

have collected 86.690.701 Cotacol points

  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée today
  • Valentin did La Rochette and Côte de Bauche today
  • Didier did Tour de Muache today
  • Joren did Côte du Bois de la Houppe, Eikenberg, Oude Kwaremont and 1 more today
  • Julien did Côte de l'Antrogne today
  • Alan did Côte de la Casmatrie today
  • Jef did Tuitenberg today
  • Théo did Thier du Mont today
  • Bastien did Charly-des-Bois today
  • Robbe did Wijndries today
  • Frank did Taaienberg, Koppenberg and Berg Ten Houtte today
  • Hubert did Côte Maquisard today
  • Greg did Côte de Noblehaye today
  • 🖤💛❤️Jonathan did Côte de Dolembreux today
  • Antoine did Côte d'Avister today
  • rocki did Berendries yesterday
  • Mike did Côte de Trieu yesterday
  • Justin did Le Charreau de Leffe and Côte de Warnant yesterday
  • Raf did Côte de Chession, Sur le Thier, Côte du Rosier-Est and 2 more yesterday
  • Daniel did Les Hazeilles and Côte d'Awenne-Est yesterday

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