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

9701 registered users

have collected 84.549.523 Cotacol points

  • Bert did Berendries yesterday
  • Thijs did Schapenheide yesterday
  • Edouard did Côte de Charneux yesterday
  • Beren did Moskesstraat yesterday
  • Julien did Route de la Sarte and Les Neuf Bonniers yesterday
  • Bram did Krekelenberg and Bruine Put yesterday
  • Sven did Kesterbeekbos yesterday
  • Briek did Baneberg yesterday
  • Dominique did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent yesterday
  • Arnaud did Côte de Bioul yesterday
  • Sven did Côte de la Ferme du Pré yesterday
  • Maarten did Smeysberg yesterday
  • Thierry did En Cowa yesterday
  • Pierre did Côte du Rosier-Est, Sur le Thier and Côte de Werbomont yesterday
  • Oscarito did Berendries yesterday
  • Gérard did Côte de Stockay, Mur d'Amay, Thier Philippart and 1 more yesterday
  • Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg yesterday
  • Laurent did Mont Saint-Rock yesterday
  • David did Achterberg yesterday
  • Tahys did Côte de Silenrieux 1 days ago

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