English to French Other Sports / Fitness / Recreation Cycling

An economist's take on Tour de France team behavior: "Nothing in American sports resembles the bizarre dynamic of the cycling peloton, partly because a stage race is less a sporting event than a commodities exchange on wheels. What appears to be a random mass of bicycles is really an orderly web of shifting alliances ...".

A finance question really, but the expression needs to be snappy, keeping the economics metaphor but remaining comprehensible.

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