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

• Rune did Col du Rideux-Nord Est, Mont-le-Soie, L'Ancienne Barrière and 1 more today
• Pierre did Côte de Ferrières, Côte de Noirhat and Côte de Ferrières today
• Steven did Wijndries yesterday
• Olivier did Le Sart des Roquettes yesterday
• Kaj did Helling van Altembroeck yesterday
• Brice did Hautregard yesterday
• david did La Goutelle des Morceaux yesterday
• Claude did La Rue Villers yesterday
• Louis did Col de la Charlerie yesterday
• Jari did Berg Ten Houtte yesterday
• Julien did Col du Marly yesterday
• geert did Côte du Haut-Chemin yesterday
• Gianni did Baneberg yesterday
• Jean-Pierre did Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy yesterday
• Grégory did Côte Barrage de la Gileppe yesterday
• Arnaud did Le Tour yesterday
• Jérémy did Le Mur de Strivay yesterday
• Amandine did Col de la Croix-Jubaru yesterday
• Théo did Côte du Lac de Genval yesterday
• Frank did Côte de Brume-Est I and Côte d'Aisomont yesterday