Your cotacol bucket list

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.

• Rik did Col du Rideux-Sud and Parc à Gibier today
• Augustin did Route Merveilleuse today
• Quentin did Côte du Château today
• Roel did Molenberg and Berendries today
• Bert did Côte de Bierleux-Haut today
• Tomas did Côte Barrage de la Gileppe today
• Frederik did L'Ancienne Barrière, Côte du Rosier-Est and Sur le Thier today
• Guy did Plattenberg today
• Guillaume did Col de la Charlerie today
• Jonathan did Côte de Lixhe today
• Kris did Berendries, Côte du Bois de la Houppe and Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg today
• Miguel did Côte d'Ereffe today
• Sander did Varentberg today
• Xavier did Smeysberg today
• Denis did Le Fond Marie, Côte de Gochenée, Les Strépys and 1 more today
• Randy did Côte de Werbomont today
• Pierre did Côte d'Aisomont, Côte de Becco and La Haute Levée today
• Ralph did Sur le Stockeu and Les Quartiers today
• Eric did Côte de Facqueval today
• Bert did Helling van Planck today