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
7720 registered users
have collected 62.420.341 Cotacol points
- Joran did Oude Kwaremont, Paterberg, Koppenberg and 3 more today
- Thomas did Berendries and Le Rossignol today
- Quentin did Col de la Croix-Jubaru yesterday
- Filip did Berendries yesterday
- Wim did Plattenberg yesterday
- David did Côte de Trieu, Le Rossignol, Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg and 1 more yesterday
- #BBBcycling did Rue des Ruwales yesterday
- Thomas did Bosberg yesterday
- Frederic did Paterberg yesterday
- Rudi did Côte du Lac de Genval yesterday
- Kris did Côte de Bousée yesterday
- Jef did Baneberg yesterday
- Wim did Langeheide, Moskesstraat and Smeysberg yesterday
- Juan did Côte de la Sapinière yesterday
- Maarten did Le Bourliquet and Beau-Site-Sud-Ouest yesterday
- Thijs did Molenberg, Berg Ten Houtte and Berendries yesterday
- Ben did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
- Stijn did Wolvenberg, Kapelleberg, Koppenberg and 3 more yesterday
- Gérard did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
- Nicolas did Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg, Kortekeer, Taaienberg and 3 more yesterday