After Friday evening's team time trial gets the 2014 Giro d'Italia underway in Belfast city centre, Saturday's stage 2 takes the riders much further afield.
The peloton takes in 218km on a stage starting in the Titanic Quarter and finishing at City Hally; the same arrangements as Friday evening's team test start and finish.
In between that start at just before 10.30am and the finish at around 4:10pm, they head out up the Antrim Coast which will look spectacular in the race's famous helicopter TV shots beamed to homes all over the world.
From the Belfast start they will set out for Bushmills and then the Giant's Causeway and along the north Antrim coast to Portrush, passing Ballybogey and Dunluce Castle.
Above we have a video preview of the stage. Below, we have a schedule with the estimated times that the peloton will reach each point along the way and showing exactly where the stage is going.
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The schedule for the publicity caravan that travels the route ahead of the riders each day is also included, as are the road closure times.
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And finally at the bottom of this piece we have a map of the route and a profile, which shows how undulating the course is. By Giro standards its pretty flat.
It should be very fast and should end in a bunch sprint unless its rainy or breezy and bad weather helps split the field.
The Irish Cycling show - effectively a cycling expo - takes place inside Merrion Square in Dublin's south inner city on both Saturday and Sunday all day in conjunction with the Giro. It is right beside the finish line for the final Irish stage 3 on Sunday. You can get details of that show here. It's well worth a look, free of charge and suitable for adults and children of all ages.
Schedule: Giro d'Italia stage 2: Saturday, May 10th
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