It has been brought to my attention that my history of bicycle racing a lifetime ago has a glaring omission in that there was a third and unheralded member of the team who also gave it diddly as best he could and that was Georgin Herterich.
Like the "Showman" and the "Footballers Father "he was under the management of the old Showman who was also the team Sponsor.
In true Sponsor mode he supplied bikes for all three who hadn't the price of a fag never mind a bike.Not Pirrelli for sure but a pre cursor of Smith International ,Dowd Oil and Herterich Engineering.
It is rumoured that one year when the Ras Tailtean was passing through Navan the intrepid trio hid in the bushes the Kells side of Navan and when the rear riders had passed they wheeled into the tail end of the race unnoticed.
History does not record what position they finished in but some swear that they went through Navan cock a hoop.
Truly those who turn up on Saturday will be wheeling in the wake of legends.
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