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

• Benoit did La Roche Sainte-Catherine yesterday
• lionel did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
• Wim did Alsberg yesterday
• Raf did Wijndries yesterday
• Jean-Luc did Côte de Wanne yesterday
• Leendert did Rue Bordelais yesterday
• Xavier did Mur de Durbuy yesterday
• Laurent did Côte de Hotte yesterday
• Brecht did Berendries yesterday
• Jyn did Côte de Foret and Côte de Trasenster-Nord yesterday
• Jonathan did Côte de Hotte yesterday
• Martin did Côte de Gaillarmont, Côte du Bois-la-Dame and Thier des Gottes yesterday
• Max did Col du Rideux-Nord Est yesterday
• Jarre did Côte de Dochamps-Nord yesterday
• Wim did Kuiperenberg yesterday
• Frank did Côte de Brume-Est I yesterday
• Christian did Kauterhof yesterday
• Benjamin did La Chausseé Romaine and Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy yesterday
• Gunther did Le Grinquier-Ouest yesterday
• Sander did Sur le Stockeu and Ferme Libert yesterday