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GUEST,DaveRo BS: How Do Bicycle Races Work? (32) RE: BS: How Do Bicycle Races Work? 14 May 15

The "peloton" is the whole group racing-- not just the group that rides bunched up together.
Er, no. The peloton is the main group riding as a bunch - in Europe anyway. Smaller bunches may be called 'Lead group', or 'Group Nordhaug' say, after the most prominent rider in it.

I've watched the Tour de France on TV every year since Greg Lemond beat Laurent Fignon by 8 seconds in the final stage - in 1989.

As others have said, the Tour is several races in one, with both teams and individuals competing, and the tactics are hard for a beginner to understand. Even in the years that we now know everybody was on drugs it was exciting.

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