What a 600 km Royal Enfield drive taught me about momentum

It was a bright day and we (friends, a pack of 5 bikers with 3 pillions) were doing 70-75 km/hr (average) on a national highway. I got a little frustrated with our speeds (I felt that we were going really slow) because it was a superb highway with hardly any vehicles on the road and because we were on one of the best possible cruiser bikes.

Anyways, when I got to ride the bike, I knew that we all can easily average 90-100 km/hr. So, I did around 95 km/hr as the 1st biker (i.e. I was ahead of all the other bikes), and I found that every other bike behind me was doing around 90-95 km/hr (some even overtaking me at some points). And because of this, at one point, even after us deciding that we will go at 70 km/hr, all of us were automatically doing at least 80-90 km/hr.

With this I realized that a biker’s speed is controlled by the biker who is driving ahead of all the other bikes (the 1st biker, that is). If the 1st bike is going at 75-80 km/hr, the bikers behind him will try to sync their speeds with the 1st biker’s speed. So, at max, the other bikers will drive (slowly) 70-80 km/hr.
  
I think, in general, this has a really cool lesson for all of us. In a group, the guy with the highest momentum determines the momentum of the whole group. So, even at work, if you are leading or managing a team sport, you should understand that the most productive guy in the team is defining your teams’ momentum. If you wish to raise the momentum of your team, raise the-most-productive-guy’s momentum or hire a guy who has a satisfactory momentum.

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