We had a fairly catastrophic failure of the DL650's suspension while headed out to Colon. When we got back to Panama City, Tamara ran into another biker (Josh from Not The Motorcycle Diaries) who told us to go out to a machine shop by the airport.
Finding the parts and getting it fixed took most of two days- it's a very long story, so we'll just point you to the blog post.
 Our machine shop. It's past the International Airport- and recommended for motorcyclists.
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 Bike, toppled, so we could remove the suspension parts.
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 Ted, trying to remove bits. It took a lot of work to remove all of it. Wilbers shock visible.
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 Removing suspension bits. Note the dented exhaust, mashed skid plate, missing centerstand.
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 Remaining bearing bits.
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 Enlarged hole in dogbone.
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 Slight bend visible.
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 Broken suspension piece.
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 Broken suspension piece.
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 Jaime, building our replacement bearing sleeves (they were a slightly different size).
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 From left to right: new bolt (sent to us in Costa Rica), bearing sleeves by Jaime, replacement bearings, replacement dogbones (by Jaime), original dogbone, new nut, old sleeve.
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 Ted, raising bike on chain hoist.
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 Ted, Jaime, and unidentified worker raising the bike.
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 Replacement dogbone.
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 One of the removed centerstand bits.
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 Picture of the wonderful machine shop. Blurry because it was relatively dark.
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