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Now the season can start – including shop talk on the roadside. With our cycling lexicon you can best prepared and will know exactly what the popular phrases from the cycling world mean. Have fun clicking through the entries! The Team MILRAM cycling lexicon has been produced in cooperation with procycling - Europe's largest professional racing bike magazine.    A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z  Feeding stagion / Feeding zone Final speed Flamme Rouge Flanders Tour Foto finish The Flanders Tour or The Ronde van Vlaanderen annually takes place at the beginning of April. The race, which is also called Vlaanderens Mooiste, Flanders’s Most Beautiful, was carried out in 1912 for the first time. The course leads the riders from Bruges through Belgiums Flemish part over the Ardennes region to Meerbeke. The first part of the course is even, the second very hilly and often with steep climbs. Keywords of the Ronde van Vlaanderen are „helligen“, the small but very steep climbs, and „kasseien“ – cobblestone. For most of the climbs lead the riders over cobbled pavement. Another term is the „wall of Geraardsbergen“, a steep climb on the race’s final 20 kilometers. This is where the breaks of the deciding groups often take place.