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

• Joost did Côte de Wavreumont today
• Victor did Hautregard today
• Pierre did Côte de Ferrières today
• Dries did Thier Bégot yesterday
• Benjamin did Le Charreau de Dréhance yesterday
• Noël did Chartreuzenberg yesterday
• Claude did La Rue Villers yesterday
• Bruno did Côte de Sorinne yesterday
• Augustin did Côte de la Haute-Marlagne yesterday
• Chris did Thier d'Amry and Côte de Lixhe yesterday
• Sven did Congoberg yesterday
• Nicolas did Col de la Charlerie yesterday
• Sam did Côte de Rogissart and Bruine Put yesterday
• Stefaan did Smeysberg and Moskesstraat yesterday
• Jonathan did Côte de Silenrieux yesterday
• Tommy did Côte de Haut-Bois yesterday
• Pieter did Montagne de la Croix yesterday
• mqxou did L'Escalette yesterday
• Antoine did Charly-des-Bois, La Haute Folie, Mon Idée and 3 more yesterday
• Marijke did Katteberg yesterday