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Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
Someone explain to me this Rose Bowl thing???
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The Rose Bowl is enormous, as you might know from watching New Year's Bowl Games. It can seat well over 100,000 people, and is older than dirt. I think the landscape of it can be seen from outer space. It's nestled deep in Pasadena, inside the San Bernardino Valley.
The grounds around the Rose Bowl are also very large. Very little auto traffic occurs around there, from the times I've been there, making it a great area to cycle, rollerblade and run. Often, there are club bicycle rides there: read road cyclists with fast bicycles. They ride in a group, called a peloton, and can amount to many, many riders. When riding in a peloton, one's threshold of error has to be extremely small - for example - watch the rider in front of you, if your tire touches his, you probably will go down.
When one goes down in a peloton invariably a large portion of the peloton goes down, akin to a domino effect. To me, it's a horrible thing to see happen.
Groups in cycling tend to be faster than individuals, so the speeds can get up to 30 or 40 miles an hour. Peloton riding is dun and challenging, but requires a lot of concentration.