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) original. When dealing with long words, it can be helpful to use an overline to denote inverses of elements of "S". Using overline notation, the above word would be written as follows: A subset "S" of a group "G" is called a generating set if every element of "G" can be represented by a word in "S". If "S" is a generating set, a relation is a pair of words in "S" that represent the same element of "G". These are usually written as equations, e.g. formula_5 A set formula_6 of relations defines "G" if every relation in "G" follows