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
10016 registered users
have collected 95.491.359 Cotacol points
- Arnault did Côte d'Ossogne yesterday
- jules did Côte de Niaster yesterday
- Alexandre did Côte de Tancrémont yesterday
- Kris did Berg Ten Houtte yesterday
- Aubin did Tienne aux Pierres yesterday
- Jan did Côte de la Ferme du Pré yesterday
- Christian did Chemin des Blés yesterday
- Rudy did Moskesstraat yesterday
- Juliette did Moskesstraat and Smeysberg yesterday
- Tom did Baneberg and Rodeberg-West yesterday
- Guillaume did Côte Fourneau Saint-Michel, Côte d'Ambly, La Mouchonnière and 1 more yesterday
- Antonie did Schwalert yesterday
- Mario did Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy, Le Paradis, Aux Houx and 7 more yesterday
- Wim did Les Plachettes, Côte de la Haute-Marlagne, Côte d'Inzefy and 2 more yesterday
- Greg did Côte de Bouxhmont yesterday
- Quentin did Côte de Colonster yesterday
- Jul did Oude Kwaremont, Paterberg, Kortekeer and 13 more yesterday



