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
9940 registered users
have collected 90.251.235 Cotacol points
- jules did Côte de Niaster yesterday
- François did Côte de Bauche yesterday
- Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
- Didier did Tour de Muache yesterday
- Tristan did Côte de Becco yesterday
- Nicolas did Berg Ten Houtte and Mont d'Ellezelles-Sud yesterday
- Christophe did Côte de Niaster yesterday
- Manon did Côte de la Baraque Michel-Est yesterday
- Pieter did Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Berendries yesterday
- Yoann did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
- Benoit did Côte d'Avionpuits yesterday
- Rémy did Charreau de Bonsecours, Charrau d'Hayettes, Côte de Loyers and 1 more yesterday
- Rutger did Roeselberg yesterday
- Bram did Les Forges I and L'Ancienne Barrière yesterday
- Quentin did Côte de Pétria yesterday
- Wim did Wijndries yesterday
- Danny did Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
- Thibaut did Rue de Beaufays yesterday
- Anton did Spitzberg yesterday
- Jos did Col de la Croix-Jubaru yesterday



