I'd always assumed it was '86 when I started following the Tour - coinciding with the start of the Channel 4 coverage - but I remember my brother and I getting a Peugeot jersey because of Robert Millar which might mean it was a year earlier as he joined Panasonic in '86 and that was Peugeot's last year anyway. He is my earliest memory certainly.
I lost a bit of interest in the last years of Armstrong but picked up again in 2006.
I'd always assumed it was '86 when I started following the Tour - coinciding with the start of the Channel 4 coverage - but I remember my brother and I getting a Peugeot jersey because of Robert Millar which might mean it was a year earlier as he joined Panasonic in '86 and that was Peugeot's last year anyway. He is my earliest memory certainly.
I lost a bit of interest in the last years of Armstrong but picked up again in 2006.