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

• Claude did La Rue Villers yesterday
• Florent did Fond des Cris yesterday
• Reinoud did Côte de Becco yesterday
• Fabian did Les Fagnes yesterday
• Chris did Thier d'Amry and Côte de Lixhe yesterday
• Robin did Thier d'Amry and Côte de Lixhe yesterday
• Alex did Chemin du Comte and Côte d'Ereffe yesterday
• Raf did Thier du Mont yesterday
• Jean-François did Rue du Calvaire yesterday
• Jonathan did Côte de Silenrieux yesterday
• Frederic did Rue Tesny yesterday
• Cédric did Helling van Planck yesterday
• Fabrice did Thier du Mont yesterday
• Brice did Le Sartay, Rue du Laveu and Rue Lhoneux yesterday
• Michiel did Holstraat yesterday
• Cedric did Côte de la Trappe yesterday
• Rudy did De Burchtheuvel, Katteberg and Plattenberg yesterday
• Julien did Route des Panoramas yesterday
• Ludovic did Espelerberg yesterday
• Mathieu did Mont-Saint-Aubert Sud-Est yesterday