I know who owns that bike! Here is the trip report where that famous photo was taken. (scroll towards the end)Naaw, the drives are fine :crackup
End BMW bash...
http://home.houston.rr.com/duked/Aug_25_Sep_26_2006.htm
It had another failure somewhere in the rear drive train a couple months ago that stranded him on a TWT Pie Run we were at.