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