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

• Mathis did Congoberg today
• Tom did Côte de Henripont today
• Rens did Fortuinberg/Kanarieberg, Wolvenberg, Koppenberg and 4 more today
• Marijn did Ferme Libert, Côte du Rosier-Est, Chemin de Livremont and 5 more today
• Geert did Paterberg and Bosberg today
• Kristof did Côte de Niaster, Côte de Fraiture, Côte d'Avister and 1 more today
• Le did La Gayolle and Charrau de Neffe today
• Kris did Varentberg today
• Alex did Charrau de Neffe and La Gayolle today
• Rob did La Gayolle, Charrau de Neffe and Le Grand Virage today
• Julien did Hirzenberg today
• M did Charrau de Neffe and La Gayolle today
• Axel did Côte de Wanne, Côte de Xhoris, La Haute Levée and 5 more today
• Ives did Côte d'Avister today
• Quinten did Les Plachettes, Varentberg, Berg Ten Houtte and 1 more today
• Olivier did Charrau de Neffe, Le Grand Virage and La Gayolle today