Motorcycle Racing Ireland

The North West 200 phwoar factor
Leather-clad lads, spectacular speed and glamorous grid girls — it’s a potent cocktail which makes for an intoxicating weekend every year at the North West 200. More than 150,000 people from all corners of the globe will, by tomorrow, have converged on the picturesque North Antrim coast to drink in the electric atmosphere of Ireland’s biggest outdoor sporting event.
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Speedway: Auto Racing’s Ghost Tracks $39.78 Around the world lies a number of long-forgotten raceways; windswept and abandoned, the derelict pit roads and crumbling concrete are all that remains of once great race tracks. From the NASCAR heartland of North Wilkesboro and Middle Georgia to the great European super speedways at Monza and Brooklands. All photographed as they are now, but remembered in their prime….

Joey Dunlop: His Authorised Biography $28.85 For motorcycle fans, Joey Dunlop is still akin to royalty. At the 50th anniversary of Honda’s arrival at the TT, images of the modest Ulsterman still held pride of place throughout the Isle of Man. In this inspirational book, written in association with the Dunlop family and Honda UK and reissued to mark the tenth anniversary of Joey’s death, Mac McDiarmid charts the life of the passio…

Hard Roads: The Essence of Road Racing $34.95 Motorcycle racing is a sport that takes man and machine to extremes. These hard roads demand everything – total commitment, total faith – from those who race on them. So what makes these men race? In Hard Roads, Stephen Davison – the world’s number one road-racing photographer and a man who has unparalleled access to the riders – answers that question. In his incredible photographs and accompanyin…