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

• Luc did Les Trys today
• Tomas did Hurdumont today
• R_T_C did Côte de Saint-Denis today
• Ties did Helling van Altembroeck today
• Bert did Berendries today
• Jeff did Côte des Grands Lacs today
• Carlos did Kauterhof today
• Gérard did Côte de Niaster, La Vecquée and Côte de Foret today
• Johan did Vidaigneberg today
• Patrick did Côte du Hordin yesterday
• Niko did Côte de Foret yesterday
• Peter did Helling van Altembroeck, Kasteelstraat, Helling van Planck and 1 more yesterday
• Bram did Le Trou du Diable yesterday
• Wim did Côte du Point d'Arrêt and Côte du Château yesterday
• Hugo did Côte de Naninne yesterday
• Dirk did Col de la Croix-Jubaru, Mont d'Ellezelles-Sud, L'Escalette and 2 more yesterday
• Filip did Côte de la Redoute, Le Fi, Côte d'Oneux and 1 more yesterday
• Jaap did Paterberg yesterday
• JENS did Côte du Rosier-Est, Côte d'Avister, Côte du Hornay and 2 more yesterday
• Théo did Speelberg yesterday