I suppose it had to happen

 A sight you don't want to see on the road 

BM & 2 Honda's in tow

After doing more than 76000km's of trouble free travelling, taking me from Prince Albert up the West Coast of Africa to the top of Africa to Tangier's to cross over the channel and up through Europe to Kent in England, then to do the ride called "The Longest Day Ride "from John o groats to Lands Ends in under 24hours, without a missing beat. She decided that after doing 23000km's in South America & Central America, she needed a rest and came to a stop about 60km's outside the city of Puebla in Mexico. As I was riding along a double highway Toll Road I heard a new strange noise coming from the bike, at first thought I pick-up a puncture, stopped to check the front tyre, nothing, then took a look at the back one, only to see oil coming out of the draft-shaft, well straight away you start worrying about " what next."  My 2 riding mates were ahead of me and did not see me stop straight away, but realized soon and found a break in the middle barriers and came back on the other-side to me. Marco then told me that he thought that the diff had a broken bearing. After a hour or so a car stopped on the other-side of the highway and shouted if we needed help, walked over and meet Ricardo Irvine ( Tropical Tours www.tropicaltours.com ) a member of the local BM club, straight away he was on the phone to his friend the President of the BM club in Mexico,  who's big mate was a owner of the BM dealership in Puebla, well a break-down truck was arranged and would collect me &the bike with-in 2 hours. After another hour a second car stopped, also a BM owner and his friend owned the hotel opposite the BM dealership, booked us a room then & there. Have in the past  spoken about Stan's lucky card "5 of Hearts" well you can imagine how he was going on about the lucky card.   Break-down truck arrived and  bike was safely loaded and with the 2 Honda's in tow, carried on to Puebla, arriving at 8pm, where the service manager was waiting.Next morning walked over to the workshop, were the diff was already been  stripped and a bearing had collapsed. I was given two option on the repairs. Order a new diff from Germany 7days waiting or replace all the bearing &seals in the diff & drive-shaft, 3 days waiting. Stan & Marco suggested the replacement route, I was still worried so I skype Dirk ( Son-in-law in England) he also agreed on replacing the bearings, which I have now decided to do. Only hassle you don't get a guarantee on the repairs done.
As Marco was given only 7 days to cross Mexico, him & Stan have left and carried on to the States were I will hock-up later with them.