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

• Vincent did Oude Kwaremont yesterday
• Eric did Côte de l'observatoire yesterday
• Julien did Route Merveilleuse yesterday
• Florent did Côte d'Amonines and Mur de Durbuy yesterday
• 🇧🇪Steeven did Tienne du Dragon yesterday
• Ward did Côte de Dochamps-Ouest yesterday
• Loïc did Côte de la Redoute and Côte du Hornay yesterday
• Romain did Côte de Gives and Côte de Namèche yesterday
• Pieter did Côte de Nadrin and Côte d'Ortho yesterday
• Tiffany did Côte d'Ortho yesterday
• Joeri did Thier de Coo yesterday
• Stany did Thier de Coo and Le tier de la Cognée yesterday
• Dominique did Le tier de la Cognée and Thier de Coo yesterday
• Geert did Thier de Coo and Le tier de la Cognée yesterday
• Thomas did Achterberg, Côte du Bois de la Houppe, Koppenberg and 1 more yesterday
• Sylvere did Plattenberg yesterday
• Carlos did Côte de Froide Vau yesterday
• Joran did Mur de Durbuy yesterday
• Olivier did Fonds de Lustin yesterday
• Thomas did Charly-des-Bois yesterday