Peloton Peloton In a road bicycle race, the peloton (from French, originally meaning 'platoon') is the main group or pack of riders. Riders in a group save energy by riding close (drafting or slipstreaming) near (particularly behind) other riders. The reduction in drag is dramatic; in the middle of a well-developed group drag can be reduced to as little as 5%-10%. Exploitation of this potential energy saving leads to very complex cooperative and competitive interactions between riders and teams in race tactics. The term is also used to refer to the community of professional cyclists in general, as in 'the professional
Word (group theory) logically from those in formula_6, using the axioms for a group. A presentation for "G" is a pair formula_8, where "S" is a generating set for "G" and formula_6 is a defining set of relations. For example, the Klein four-group can be defined by the presentation Here 1 denotes the empty word, which represents the identity element. When "S" is not a generating set for "G", the set of elements represented by words in "S" is a subgroup of "G". This is known as the subgroup of "G" generated by "S", and is usually denoted formula_11. It is the smallest