Your cotacol bucket list

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

• Aloïs did Côte de Noirhat yesterday
• Martin did Côte de Chôdes yesterday
• Pierre did Côte de Noirhat and Côte de Ferrières yesterday
• Raf did L'Ancienne Barrière yesterday
• Mario did Katteberg yesterday
• Mathieu did Alsemberg yesterday
• Xav did Charly-des-Bois yesterday
• Miguel did Mur de Huy and Côte d'Ereffe yesterday
• Emilie did Fond de Nîmes yesterday
• Antoine did Rue Famelette yesterday
• Pablo did Berendries yesterday
• A did Route Barrière de Champlon yesterday
• Steven did Roeselberg yesterday
• Wout did Achterberg, Holstraat and Taaienberg yesterday
• Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
• Jean-Michel did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
• S did Krekelenberg, Beerselstraat, Côte de la Grande Bruyère and 2 more yesterday
• Le did Le Stampia, Col du Marly and Côte des Sept Meuses-Nord yesterday
• Ariste did Le Grinquier-Ouest yesterday
• Steve did Les Plachettes yesterday