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
8800 registered users
have collected 72.284.636 Cotacol points
- Yves did Côte du Burnon today
- Moïse did Côte de l'Étang-Vivier today
- X did Côte du Terme today
- Tom did Route de Givet today
- David did Côte du la Croix du Canard today
- Reinoud did Côte de Cokaifagne, Côte de Solwaster, Rue du Jeu de Paume and 1 more today
- Anthony did Côte de Dolembreux today
- 🚴♂️ did Les Kimones today
- Chris did Côte de Landelies and Côte de Pétria today
- Hans did Côte du Domaine de Stockeux, Col du Rideux-Sud, Côte de Verlaine-sur-Ourthe and 2 more today
- Erwin did Op de Eiken today
- Fabrice did Côte de Trasenster-Nord today
- Alexis did Côte de Lorcé and Thier des Critchons today
- Daan did Smeysberg today
- raptor did Le Sart des Roquettes today
- Christophe did Charly-des-Bois, Mon Idée and Les Gaudys today
- Frederic did Le Grand Virage and Route de Sohier today
- Didier did Côte de Herhet today
- MARTIN did Côte de Lincé today
- Troch did Côte du Jolibois-Ouest, Rue du Laveu, Côte de Stockay and 14 more today