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RIDING AS A GROUP

here’s something hypnotic about watching the peloton, overhead from the helicopter, traversing the landscape, parting like the waves upon encountering a roundabout,” says Liam Holohan. Of course, as with so many aspects of elite-level sport, those who make it look so easy have, in reality, devoted hundreds and hundreds of hours of hard work away from the public glare to perfect the peloton. “This is not by chance, each rider has applied a number of principles and

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