Some folks are asking, is there something safer than a double paceline (see Fig. 1a)? Jill, Mary, and others, utilised a slow rotating paceline in a fondo last summer and swear by at. If I understand it correctly, a slow rotating paceline is a rotating paceline (see Fig. 1b) but where two riders come upfront together, pull, and then fall back together. In this way, the peloton is always just two abreast, which seems a safer proposition than sporadically four abreast in a double paceline (i.e., the situation that led to Jill's owie).
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Figure 1a Double paceline
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Figure 1b Rotating paceline (clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere
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