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

• tobias did Op de Eiken yesterday
• Alex did Mon Plaisir yesterday
• Guillaume did Les Plachettes yesterday
• Gauthier did Le tier de la Cognée yesterday
• Florian did Côte de Lixhe yesterday
• Thomas did Côte de Lixhe yesterday
• Martin did Côte d'Aisomont yesterday
• Steven did Roeselberg and Wijndries yesterday
• Grégoire did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg yesterday
• Julien did Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy yesterday
• Rob did Chemin de Favechamps yesterday
• Augustin did Col du Marly yesterday
• Kevin did Hurdumont yesterday
• Philippe did Rue des Laidmonts yesterday
• Jef did Les Forges I yesterday
• Jean-François did Rue de Coquelet yesterday
• David did L'Escalette and Côte du Bois de la Houppe yesterday
• Igor did Kasteelstraat yesterday
• Stefan did Wolvenberg yesterday
• Joris did Les Forges I yesterday