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.

Combined achievements

8997 registered users

have collected 75.056.324 Cotacol points

  • Kris did Katteberg yesterday
  • Mathieu did Alsemberg yesterday
  • Antoine did Chemin du Comte, Le Thier de Scry and Côte de Facqueval yesterday
  • Raf did Côte d'Aisomont yesterday
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
  • Pierre did Côte de Noirhat and Côte de Ferrières yesterday
  • Quentin did Mur de Huy and Côte d'Ereffe yesterday
  • Gilles did Côte du Bois-la-Dame yesterday
  • Dominique did Les Basses yesterday
  • Jelle did Congoberg yesterday
  • Koen did Côte de Henripont yesterday
  • 🏊🚴🏃Steph did Kuiperenberg and Kuiperenberg yesterday
  • Karel did Kapelleberg yesterday
  • Guillaume did Col du Rideux-Sud yesterday
  • Damien did Tienne Calbalasse, Avenue des Trieux, Chemin des Etangs and 1 more yesterday
  • Julien did Moskesstraat yesterday
  • Dieter did Berg Ten Houtte, Molenberg, Koppenberg and 2 more yesterday
  • Patrick did Côte d'Amermont, Côte de Spineux, Côte d'Amonines and 2 more yesterday
  • Arthur did Côte de Niaster and Côte de la Redoute yesterday
  • Je did La Roche Sainte-Catherine yesterday

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