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

10020 registered users

have collected 95.690.095 Cotacol points

  • Jeremie did Côte de Cornillon yesterday
  • Jérôme did Côte du Rosier-Nord I and La Vecquée yesterday
  • Florent did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
  • Quentin did Côte de Loyers and Mur de Huy yesterday
  • Hannes did Taaienberg, Kortekeer and Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg yesterday
  • Pierre did Krekelenberg yesterday
  • Bram did Alsberg yesterday
  • Lionel did Le Terme yesterday
  • jurgen did Thier Bégot yesterday
  • Bert did Congoberg yesterday
  • Nicolas did Rue du Petit-Try yesterday
  • Victor did Côte de Foret yesterday
  • Jul did Berendries and Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
  • Olivier did Malchamps yesterday
  • Mario did Côte de la France, Côte de Chokier, Chemin de Goiha and 6 more yesterday
  • Leo did Charly-des-Bois yesterday
  • Bastien did Côte de Barcenal yesterday
  • Laurent did Les Kimones yesterday
  • Stephane did Mon Idée yesterday
  • Jean-François did Côte de Dochamps-Est, Le Crawy and Côte de Hives yesterday

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