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

9569 registered users

have collected 82.622.670 Cotacol points

  • Steve did Hautregard today
  • Greg did Côte de Niaster and Côte de Werbomont today
  • Koen did Côte de Henripont today
  • Stef did Wijndries today
  • Julien did Col du Marly today
  • Bruno did Côte de Bonnerue today
  • Gilles did Côte de Hansez today
  • « Charlie » did Côte de la Schock today
  • Wouter did Côte de Spineux and Côte de Wanne today
  • Kcinnay did Charly-des-Bois today
  • Stany did Côte de Trasenster-Nord and Côte d'Avister today
  • Ewoud did Le Mur de Strivay, Chambralles and Côte du Ry d'Oneux today
  • Rudy did Côte de Conrad today
  • Jonathan did Thier de Coo and Ferme Libert today
  • Laurent did Thier des Critchons today
  • Bram did Moskesstraat today
  • Eric did Côte de Facqueval today
  • Jens did Côte de Filot and Côte de Fraiture today
  • Gunther did Le Grinquier-Ouest today
  • Corné did Ganzenberg, Eikenberg, Bosberg and 1 more today

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