Originally Posted by
Iride01
If you ride in a group, you definitely will be coasting, soft pedaling and using your brakes when behind others. It'll take a while to get used to the speed variations. Just be aware that every time you slow down, the people behind you will have to slow down more and that makes a big ripple effect that can have some towards the rear working too hard to catch up.
When riding in a paceline there's nothing more annoying than the person in front of you doing pedal-coast-pedal-coast, etc. This can cause contertinaing(?) of the line and is possibly dangerous.