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
Elision (French) Example: "l'homme". Both types of "h" are silent regardless. Elision of the second-person singular subject pronoun "tu", before the verbs "avoir" "to have" and "être" "to be", and of the particle of negation "ne", is very common in informal speech, but is avoided in careful speech and never used in formal writing: Elision (French) In French, elision refers to the suppression of a final unstressed vowel (usually ) immediately before another word beginning with a vowel. The term also refers to the orthographic convention by which the deletion of a vowel is reflected in writing, and indicated with an apostrophe.