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

9409 registered users

have collected 80.769.497 Cotacol points

  • Rob. did Côte de Surister and Côte de Neufmarteau yesterday
  • Ludovic did Les Quartiers yesterday
  • Julien did Le Bois d'Oisquercq yesterday
  • Dimitri did Bruine Put yesterday
  • Diego did Côte de Froide Bise yesterday
  • Thomas did Côte de Henripont yesterday
  • Franck did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
  • Thomas did Rue Naimette yesterday
  • Thibaut did Trou Bourbon yesterday
  • Sem did Hurdumont yesterday
  • Vincent did Mur de Huy and Côte de State yesterday
  • Maxime did Côte du Rosier-Est, Côte de Xhierfomont, L'Ancienne Barrière and 2 more yesterday
  • Quinten did Côte de Hives and Côte du Barrage Nisramont yesterday
  • Sebastien did Kuiperenberg yesterday
  • Jan did Côte d'Ovifat and Sur le Thier yesterday
  • Dries did Baneberg, Rodeberg-Oost, Vidaigneberg and 1 more yesterday
  • Daan did Rue Famelette, Thier de Huy and Mur de Huy yesterday
  • Olivier did Le Fays de José yesterday
  • Jens did Côte de Tancrémont yesterday
  • Bruno did Haussire-Sud and Côte de Dochamps-Ouest yesterday

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