Here's a nice little video highlights looking back at Stephen Roche's victory in the Giro d'Italia in 1987.
It has been released by the race organisers to mark the Irishman's induction into the Giro Hall of Fame tomorrow, Tuesday, at a ceremony in Co Antrim.
The location of tomorrow's event at the Giant's Causeway will form part of the route for stage 2 of the race this year, which starts with a team time trial in Belfast on Friday, May 9th.
Roche's induction into the Hall of Fame will also neatly kick off the publicity leading up to this year's Irish start, which sees riders taken in the team time trial and road stage the following day - both stages starting and finishing in Belfast.
The action then moves south for a brief visit to the Republic, with stage 3 taking the riders from Armagh to Dublin city centre, where a sprint finishes in anticipated on Merrion Sq in the south inner city.
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We'll be there tomorrow and we'll bring you all the news and a word with the man himself.
The poster announcing Roche's induction into the Giro Hall of Fame in Co Antrim tomorrow, Tuesday
Getting in the mood; the window in Dave Kane Cycles in Belfast today. The business is owned by the legendary former international rider Dave Kane, whose son Mark and daughter Debbie were also international bike riders of note.
In His Pomp: A youthful looking Roche taking the Giro in '87, which he would follow up with the Tour de France and World Championships gold in the same season.
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