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
7653 registered users
have collected 62.110.192 Cotacol points
- Erik did Helling van Planck yesterday
- Antoine did Fonds des Chênes yesterday
- Grégoire did Côte de Foret yesterday
- Romain did Molenberg yesterday
- Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
- Michael did Berendries yesterday
- Tom did Roeselberg yesterday
- Johan did Smeysberg yesterday
- Tycho did Moskesstraat and Chaussée d'Ottenbourg yesterday
- Arnaud did Côte de Dohan yesterday
- Adrien did Route de Givet yesterday
- Joeri did Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
- LAURENS did Plattenberg and Côte de Lixhe yesterday
- Marijn did Rodeberg-West and Baneberg yesterday
- Julien did Côte de Soy-Ouest, Côte de Chaieneu, Côte de Waharday-Nord-Est and 3 more yesterday
- Antonie did Molenberg yesterday
- Johan did Côte de Henripont, La Roche Sainte-Catherine and Le Mont Coupé yesterday
- Neal did Côte du Maka, La Goutelle des Morceaux, La Goutelle du Wé and 6 more yesterday
- Pieter did Kruisberg yesterday
- Frederic did Côte du Rosier-Est and Côte d'Avister yesterday