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
9348 registered users
have collected 79.826.706 Cotacol points
- Serge did Chambralles, Les Quartiers, Mur de Huy and 2 more today
- Julien did Côte du Moulin de Grune and La Mouchonnière today
- Fr did Côte de Neuville today
- Diego did Drève du Tumulus today
- Len did Mont d'Ellezelles-Sud today
- serge did Tienne des Français, Moskesstraat, Smeysberg and 1 more today
- Pierre did Côte de Neufmarteau and Sur le Thier today
- A did La Jonquière today
- Christian did Kauterhof today
- Neal did Côte du Bois de Guéville, Côte de la Guingette, Côte de Montquintin-Nord and 12 more today
- philippe did Côte de Gives today
- Gregory did Côte du Chant d'Oiseaux today
- Evert did Bosberg and Congoberg today
- Pierre did Toverberg, Moskesstraat and Schapenheide today
- David did Côte du Bois de la Houppe today
- Patrick did Paterberg today
- Giovanni did Côte de Trasenster-Nord today
- Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today
- Laurent did Mont Saint-Rock today