Quote Originally Posted by Pedal Wench
In fact, I've heard that the person riding in the front gets a slight benefit too - something like 5%, because if the reduction of turbulance pulling them back.
They talked about that on OLN during the TdF. Lead rider gets some but very little benefit of someone drafting off of him/her. Those close to the front have about a 30% reduction in their effort and those in the large pack have even more of a benefit. Drafting is so cool. It's amazing how the person in front can just be spinning away and to stay on their wheel you can be coasting at times.