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

• Julie did Le Fays de José and Côte de Foret today
• Thomas did Les Kimones today
• Bert did Côte de Brume-Est I and Côte de Petit-Thier today
• Patrick did Côte de Chérapont today
• Olivier did Côte de Loyers and Tneuchamps today
• Mathieu did Côte de Somal today
• Denis did Côte de Bonnerue today
• François did Côte d'Aisomont today
• Filip did Wijndries today
• Bas did Congoberg today
• Nicolas did Bruine Put today
• Saverio did La Sablière, Bruine Put, Krekelenberg and 1 more today
• 🇧🇪 did Kuiperenberg today
• Julien did Bruine Put and Charly-des-Bois today
• Nico did Roeselberg today
• Thomas did Côte de Cetturu today
• Seb did Charly-des-Bois today
• Joffrey did Brandberg today
• Benny did Toverberg today
• Nick did Wijndries today