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

9854 registered users

have collected 87.860.035 Cotacol points

  • VANSCHOENWINKEL did Côte de Foret yesterday
  • jules did Côte de Werbomont and Côte de Niaster yesterday
  • Aubin did Chemin de la Fontaine, Les Ornias, Côte du Hordin and 1 more yesterday
  • Raf did Côte de la Baraque Michel-Est yesterday
  • Greg did Côte de Xhavée yesterday
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
  • Koen did Toverberg yesterday
  • Florent did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
  • Luc did La Croisette yesterday
  • Ruben did Route de Sohier and Le Ry des Glands yesterday
  • ista did Côte de Haut-Bois yesterday
  • Nathan did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
  • Julien did Tienne aux Pierres yesterday
  • Franck did Moskesstraat and Smeysberg yesterday
  • Ewald did Tuitenberg yesterday
  • Neal did Thier d'Amry, Thier Bégot and Côte de Lixhe yesterday
  • Adrien did Tienne Vincent yesterday
  • Jonas did Berendries yesterday
  • Jacques did Smeysberg yesterday
  • Joran did Sur Waha, Sur la Commune, Côte de Beffe and 3 more yesterday

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