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Broke down in West Texas.... Setup: A few years back, February's Bike week in Daytona beach Florida was a couple weeks away and I decided to make a quick motorcycle ride over there to take it in. I've had this bike for years and was over confidant about its reliability, and besides I'd recently put a new to it motor that I'd put together. So to that end, I left for Daytona one early morn to try and make the run across I-10, The southern route, about 2400 miles, to Daytona, in 2 days. Along about the 14th hour and somewhere in west Texas a noise in the power plant, that sickened me, indicated the end of my trip. Oops, you can't miss the noise/symptoms of a spun bearing. A total failure in the crankshaft department had left me along the side of the freeway about 15 miles west of Ft Stockton. It was dark and cold. I did thank my lucky stars that there was no Tx wind to add to the ordeal as I waited for an AAA tow truck to haul me into town. I have been a tow dr