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Le ‘Baroudeur’
'Who doesn’t love a long, lone breakaway – those plucky underdogs trying, usually hopelessly, to stay away from the speeding peloton? The French have a word for them, and that word is baroudeur. It comes from the Arabic, where its meaning is “dynamite”. The French use it to mean “adventurer” and in bike racing it’s all about the riders who like to put a bomb under the race and go off on the attack.' Suze Clemiston - P is for Peloton.
As well as being a racing tactic, breakaways guarantee TV coverage and air time for the team sponsors.
Robert Chapatte, a French ex-professional cyclist turned TV commentator, calculated that a speeding peloton takes 10km to gain back one minute on a breakaway, though with advances in bike technology and rider fitness it’s now more like 90 seconds. This has since become known as Chapatte's Law.
Le ‘Baroudeur’
'Who doesn’t love a long, lone breakaway – those plucky underdogs trying, usually hopelessly, to stay away from the speeding peloton? The French have a word for them, and that word is baroudeur. It comes from the Arabic, where its meaning is “dynamite”. The French use it to mean “adventurer” and in bike racing it’s all about the riders who like to put a bomb under the race and go off on the attack.' Suze Clemiston - P is for Peloton.
As well as being a racing tactic, breakaways guarantee TV coverage and air time for the team sponsors.
Robert Chapatte, a French ex-professional cyclist turned TV commentator, calculated that a speeding peloton takes 10km to gain back one minute on a breakaway, though with advances in bike technology and rider fitness it’s now more like 90 seconds. This has since become known as Chapatte's Law.
Le ‘Baroudeur’
'Who doesn’t love a long, lone breakaway – those plucky underdogs trying, usually hopelessly, to stay away from the speeding peloton? The French have a word for them, and that word is baroudeur. It comes from the Arabic, where its meaning is “dynamite”. The French use it to mean “adventurer” and in bike racing it’s all about the riders who like to put a bomb under the race and go off on the attack.' Suze Clemiston - P is for Peloton.
As well as being a racing tactic, breakaways guarantee TV coverage and air time for the team sponsors.
Robert Chapatte, a French ex-professional cyclist turned TV commentator, calculated that a speeding peloton takes 10km to gain back one minute on a breakaway, though with advances in bike technology and rider fitness it’s now more like 90 seconds. This has since become known as Chapatte's Law.