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
8771 registered users
have collected 71.978.876 Cotacol points
- Alexander did Muur van Geraardsbergen yesterday
- Tom did Côte de Trieu yesterday
- Joran did Côte du Bois de la Houppe, Côte de Trieu and Mont-Saint-Aubert Sud-Ouest yesterday
- Pieter did Côte du Bol d'Air, Rue Baltus, Rue Bordelais and 8 more yesterday
- Grégoire did Côte de Foret and Côte de Trasenster-Nord yesterday
- Kim did Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
- Joeri did Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
- Eric did Côte de Wegnez yesterday
- Bart did Les Strépys, Côte de Lenne-Est, Le Charreau de Dréhance and 2 more yesterday
- Gert did Felix Sohiestraat/Solheide, Paolaberg, Trassersweg and 1 more yesterday
- Jean-Jacques did Côte de Dolembreux yesterday
- Katrien did Côte de Mormont yesterday
- Stef did Côte Fourneau Saint-Michel yesterday
- Vincent did Chemin du Chera yesterday
- Arnaud did Tienne aux Pierres yesterday
- Koen did Kuithol yesterday
- Joeri did Kapelleberg yesterday
- Gijs did Tuitenberg yesterday
- Xavier did Chemin du Chera yesterday
- Kobe did Achterberg and Kapelleberg yesterday