Canada's not being very nice to us

August 19th

Found some grub at an A&W and headed for Winnipeg.  Arrived at around 1 pm and found some wifi and plugged in with home while Duane took a link out of his chain because it was out of adjustment and still stretching rather rapidly.  Rode another three hours and pulled over for quick break and guess what?  There was oil dripping out the bottom of Duane’s cycle.  Crap!  The plan of attack was to just add oil and make it to the next town and then see what we needed and what our options were.  Duane went first so we could watch for oil leaking out.  Went about half a mile and his back wheel got shiny black, so I pulled up beside him and got oil spritzed all over me because what I saw wasn’t good.  There was oil just dumping out the bottom of his cycle!  I hollered on the radio he better shut her off if he didn’t want a sized up drz 400.  The next town, Dryden, ON, was about 40 miles away so we got out the tie strap we took for just this situation.  Tyler had a heavy-duty clutch in his 350 so we used that as the tow machine.  I headed into town ahead of them to see what I could find out about any dealers in the area and find a place to stay.  The dealer in town didn’t open till nine the next morning so we stayed the night in Dryden.  That evening we determined that the nut came loose on the sprocket shaft which allowed the seal on the shaft to come out which allowed the oil to find its way out.  The nut’s threads were a striped out which was all we really needed to get it running again, so that was our first thing to do in the morning.