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Discovering Irish Road Racing at the NW 200 Photo Gallery

Public roads and top gear pinned, Irish road races like the North West 200 attract a different breed of rider.

The Northwest 200 has become Ireland's crowning achievement in road racing with fan attendance estimated as high as 150,000 each year. View the full story about the contest at Discovering Irish Road Racing at the NW 200.

Admission to the North West 200 is free, though fans can purchase a prime vantage at a grandstand or local home.

Tall and lanky, Manx rider Conor Cummins is a consistent threat for the road racing rostrum.

When the 'King of the Roads' died during an Estonian road race in 2000. The funeral in his native Northern Ireland drew thousands of mourners for their national hero.

Joey Dunlop in his trademark yellow helmet leads brother Robert at the 1991 NW200.

Dromara Destroyer Ray McCullough dominated Irish roads like no one else, save Joey Dunlop.

John McGuinness an Isle of Man TT legend and five-time NW200 winner.

Stuart Easton turns in the Metropole.

Michael Dunlop carries on the Dunlop road racing legacy.

Former AMA champion Jimmy Moore (17) has emerged as a regular competitor at the North West, one of the few Americans to take to the Irish roads.

Honda rider Steve Plater crashed hard in practice, lucky to suffer only a broken arm.

The Dunlop family convenes at the Memorial for Robert Dunlop, located next to the monument to brother Joey in the town of Ballymoney.

Paul Robinson celebrates his first ever NW200 victory, taking the win in the 125 class.

The course routes through public roads, shut down for half-day increments to accommodate the racing.

Nowrth West 200 riders race down Primrose Hill.

Tens of thousands of racing fans annualy flock to Portrush, Portstewart and Coleraine, the small trio of towns on the northern coast upon whose public roads the 8.9-mile circuit runs.

Kiwi Bruce Anstey, a former NW200 winner and road racing regular.

At the North West riders bash fairings for position launching off the start en masse.

Stuart Easton up front in the NW200, with the Scottish rider setting a new record for top speed.

William Dunlop, winner of 250 and 125 races at the North West 200 and son of the late Robert Dunlop.

Scottish rider Keith Amor gave BMW its first ever NW200 victory with a win in the Superstock class aboard the new S1000RR.

Guy Martin, hailing from Lincolnshire, England, and one of the more popular riders in the road racing circuits.

Wilson Craig Honda's Guy Martin skirts the curb on a wet road. The rain is an issue in road racing only when it's wet on some portions of the circuit but dry on others.

The Armoy Armada ruled the roads in the '70s and early '80s before racing fatalities decimated their ranks.

A speed-reducing chicane was built at Mather's Cross to increase safety in that particularly lethal high-speed section.

Close up of Mather's Cross at the North West 200.

Paul Robinson laid his winner's wreath from the 125cc race on his father Mervyn, a member of the Armoy Armada who was killed in the North West 200 in 1980.

Irishman Alastair Seeley had a strong NW200, taking two victories one in Supersport and the other in Superbike, an Irish rider not having stepped atop the Superbike NW200 podium in more than a decade.

Northern Ireland's Antrim Coastal Road.