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) subgroup of "G" that contains the elements of "S". Any word in which a generator appears next to its own inverse ("xx" or "x""x") can be simplified by omitting the redundant pair: This operation is known as reduction, and it does not change the group element represented by the word. (Reductions can be thought of as relations that follow from the group axioms.) A reduced word is a word that contains no redundant pairs. Any word can be simplified to a reduced word by performing a sequence of reductions: The result does not depend on the order in which the