In 1986 Hugh Mackie and Dmitri Turin opened the Sixth Street Specials, specializing in the repair of Triumph, Nortons, Royal Enfields, and various other English motorcycles. The blocks surrounding the shop had been burnt to the ground like Berlin after a bombing raid.
The bikers frequenting the Sixth Street Specials, looked down on my stripped down Yamaha 650 XS, but at the door of the Milk Bar I granted entrance to anyone who was a friend of Dmitri and Hugh. It was a good time to be riding bikes. The city was ours and Dmitri ruled the streets. There were few people like him. Not then. Not now.
Dmitri lives forever on the road.
As do all bikers from past, present, and future.
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