TDF explained: Pack Mentality: the energy economics of pelotons

Great article on the TDF: Pack mentality - from a free market/capitalist perspective:

Pack Mentality: the energy economics of pelotons.

Cut deals with the enemy, maximize liquidity, punish the welshers, and other free-market lessons of the typical bike race.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/26/magazines/fortun...

The peloton during the Tour de France. Clustering of the teams is apparent.

Rgds, Hans

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"I thought of that while riding my bike."
Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity.