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

• Jérôme did L'M de Bomerée yesterday
• Stefan did Boelarebos yesterday
• Didier did Route des Trois Frères yesterday
• Maikel did Holstraat yesterday
• Augustin did Côte de la Haute-Marlagne yesterday
• Reinoud did La Vecquée and Mont Theux yesterday
• VANSCHOENWINKEL did Côte du Ry d'Oneux yesterday
• Brecht did Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
• Chloé did Ganzenberg yesterday
• Brice did Jevoumont yesterday
• Gaetan did Beau-Site-Nord-Ouest yesterday
• Julien did Col du Marly yesterday
• Maxime did Charly-des-Bois yesterday
• Eugenie did L'Ancienne Barrière yesterday
• Bertrand did Col du Marly and Côte du Château de Spontin yesterday
• Christian did Promenade du Val d'Argent yesterday
• Brieuc did Grand Route de Rocroi and Côte du Château yesterday
• Samuel did Hurdumont yesterday
• Daan did Smeysberg yesterday
• Philippe did Côte de Niaster yesterday