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

• Bavo did Côte du Cheval de Bois today
• Dylan did Berendries and Congoberg today
• Augustin did Route Merveilleuse and Côte de la Haute-Marlagne today
• 🇧🇪 did Thier de l'Abbaye today
• Jack did Sur le Thier today
• Théo did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today
• Pieter did Le Mont de l'Enclus, Kruisberg, Spinessenberg/Fiertelmeers and 1 more today
• Mathias did La Martinette, Tier d'Aussai and Côte du Gerny today
• Joeri did Le Stoquache and Les Hazeilles today
• Manuel did Côte de Bonnerue today
• Andy did Côte de Bonnerue today
• Bart did Côte de Bonnerue today
• Erwin did Molenberg and Berendries today
• Philippe did Côte d'Anseremme and Smeysberg today
• Frederik did Kemmelberg-Oost, Kemmelberg-West, Baneberg and 1 more today
• Wim did Tier Boa today
• Thomas did Tier Boa and Côte de Dochamps-Ouest today
• Bart did Mur de Huy and Côte d'Ereffe today
• Philippe did Côte de Foret today
• Louis did Côte d'Avister today