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 75.087.757 Cotacol points
- Martin did Côte d'Amermont and Côte d'Aisomont yesterday
- Antoine did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
- Adrien did Côte de Niaster yesterday
- Augustin did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
- Thomas did Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
- Jan did Côte de Trieu yesterday
- Jonathan did Le Fays de José, Cote de Sarolay and Plattenberg yesterday
- Joren did Oude Kwaremont and Berg Ten Houtte yesterday
- Kristof did Moskesstraat and Smeysberg yesterday
- Tmas did Col du Rideux-Sud yesterday
- Strava did Côte de Salet yesterday
- Mario did Les Coulottes, Les Raidons, Le Domaine de Pumont and 8 more yesterday
- Adam did Côte d'Odeigne, Côte de l'Amante, Vieux Thier and 4 more yesterday
- Maxime did Côte de Dolembreux yesterday
- Romain did Mur de Huy and Thier des Malades yesterday
- Kevin did Côte de Trieu, Côte du Bois de la Houppe, Berg Ten Houtte and 3 more yesterday
- toon did Berg Ten Houtte, Oude Kwaremont, Koppenberg and 2 more yesterday
- Guillaume did Roche à Frêne yesterday
- Erwan did Côte de Meaurain yesterday