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