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
8805 registered users
have collected 72.581.628 Cotacol points
- Claude did La Rue Villers yesterday
- Victor did Côte de Dolembreux yesterday
- pierre did Côte de Malempré yesterday
- Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
- 🇧🇪 did Côte de Becco yesterday
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- jeremy did Rue Coupée and Rue de La Sèche yesterday
- Jacky did Les Quatre Pavés yesterday
- Tia did Côte de la Ville Haute yesterday
- Louis did Col de la Charlerie and Côte de Sorinne yesterday
- LAURENS did Thier d'Amry, Côte de Lixhe and Plattenberg yesterday
- Wim did Côte de Niaster yesterday
- Fabian did Rue du Laveu yesterday
- Xavier did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent and Côte de Xhavée yesterday
- Augustin did Haut-Baty yesterday
- Bert did Koppenberg and Koppenberg yesterday
- Mathis did Côte de Sovimont yesterday
- Mica did Côte du Moulin d'Olenne yesterday
- Didier did Chemin de Mormont and Le Crawy yesterday
- François did Côte de Brume-Est I yesterday