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.

• Greg did Côte de Niaster today
• Le did Côte de la Haute-Marlagne today
• Arnaud did Côte de Lenne-Est and Côte Saint-Jacques today
• David did Puttenberg [Ledeberg] today
• Daniel did Côte du Bois de Saint-Laurent today
• Steven did Côte du Pont Crotté today
• Marcel did Plattenberg today
• Aubin did La Rochette today
• Wout did Le Thier de Scry and Côte de la France today
• « Charlie » did Côte de l'Eau Rouge today
• Sebastien did Chaussée d'Ottenbourg today
• Florian did Côte de Niersant, Taille du Vivier and Côte de Naninne today
• Herman did Côte de Maltournée, Côte de Conrad and Côte de Bohan-Sud today
• Gunther did Le Grinquier-Ouest today
• Stephane did Côte d'Ereffe today
• Eppo did Bosberg and Congoberg today
• Jan did Koppenberg and Côte de Trieu today
• David did Alsberg today
• Joeri did Kemmelberg-Zuid today
• Quentin did Côte de Hermalle-sous-Huy and La Chausseé Romaine today