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

• Sébastien did Steigung von Hepscheid, Andlerberg, Der Alesberg and 1 more today
• Arnaud did Côte de Hulsonniaux, Côte de Heneumont, Plantis du Vivroule and 2 more today
• Kris did Molenberg today
• Yves did Côte de la Croix-Javalle, Côte du Moulin de Grune and La Mouchonnière today
• Jeroen did Montagne du Godru, Taille Thérèse, Le Boyau de Biez and 3 more today
• Le did Côte des Sept Meuses-Nord and Col du Marly today
• Florian did Côte Fourneau Saint-Michel today
• Steve did Côte de Chession today
• Tim did Côte d'Ereffe and Mur de Huy today
• Daniel did Côte de Samrée today
• Bruno did Kauterhof today
• Kristof did Les Strépys today
• Matthieu did Schapenheide today
• Henk did Le Bourliquet, L'Escalette, Mont-Saint-Aubert Sud-Ouest and 2 more today
• Fred did Col de la Croix-Jubaru today
• Mario did Le Stuval, Côte du Sacré-Coeur, Côte de Gochenée and 6 more today
• Bruno did Côte de Bonnerue today
• Laurent did Thier du Mont today
• Benjamin did Vidaigneberg today
• Olivier did Rue Adolphe Dumont, Les Forges I and Thier du Mont today