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I'm not good enough to draft, wouldn't have the faintest idea how close to be to actually take advantage of it.
I do however love to tail people better than me - it helps me learn. Just did this the other day after deciding that cutting out the Park Lane/Shaftesbury loop in getting to the British Museum was worth it to ride down Oxford Street the whole way. I was pootling along, being a good cyclist, not undercutting the thousands of busses, when this other dude (pink button-up shirt and blueish trousers) on a fixed bike came up on my right and demonstrated, probably without meaning to, the manner in which I could get my inexperienced self along the road faster.
Did this once in NYC, pleasing myself by tailing a dude who was obviously better than me and feeling good about the whole thing. He looked behind himself a couple of times and when he realized I'd been tailing him quite a while he shot off and left me in the dust. :(
I don't think I'd mind having a tail, in fact I'm relatively certain I'd relish the feeling of being in front for once!