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

9420 registered users

have collected 81.030.526 Cotacol points

  • Thomas did Sur le Thier today
  • Xav did Charly-des-Bois today
  • Ed did Rue du Calvaire today
  • Aloïs did Côte de Noirhat today
  • Florent did Espelerberg today
  • Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée today
  • Strava did Li Voye des Monnis today
  • Jean-Michel did Li Voye des Monnis today
  • Benoît did Côte de Landelies today
  • Bruno did Route Barrière de Champlon today
  • Thomas did Côte de Henripont today
  • Jean-François did Mur des Sept Meuses-Est today
  • Alexandre did Côte de Noirhat today
  • Michael did Bosberg and Congoberg today
  • Michaël did Côte de la Sapinière and La Longue Haile today
  • Steve did Côte de Sovimont, Triple Mur du Monty, Côte des Sept Meuses-Nord and 2 more today
  • Kristof did Smeysberg today
  • Mathis did Tienne Hinraut today
  • Mario did Les Quartiers, Côte de Petit-Thier and Côte de Samrée today
  • scott did Côte de la Pairelle today

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