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Hey everybody, it’s Daniel Corbin again, filling you in on my progress these past two weeks...
It’s been a rough couple of weeks since I wrote my last installment of the Daniel Corbin project. Last time I wrote about my bike having gotten messed up at Lake Whitney. As I’m writing this, that still hasn’t changed. Every time I order a part, it’s always backordered! It took me two weeks to find a seatcover that wasn’t backordered, I ordered plastic before I even left for Whitney, and it finally came off of backorder, though I don’t think they’ve shipped it yet. Most importantly, the sub frame I ordered is supposedly backordered, but get this, it’s backordered until the 18th of March. Yep, that’s right, until just about a month ago.
I have to thank Brad at the parts desk at Twigg’s, he’s been calling these companies and e-mailing them, trying to get my parts for me. I know it’s been a real pain in the butt, and he’s been doing a good job. I’m starting to get a little concerned because a qualifier is coming up this weekend and I need those parts before then. I can ride with a bent sub frame, but I don’t want to go to the race with crappy plastic. I’m serious about representing my sponsors, and I’d almost rather not race then go to the race with a bike that doesn’t look 100%.
Aside from getting those parts I’ve racked up quite a few more parts that I’ve had to order. Fortunately none of them have been backordered so far. The worst thing about these parts that need to be replaced is they’ve been screwing up my training efforts. The countershaft seal went bad, and when I went to our shed to get my bike out to ride, I saw a puddle of oil underneath the bike. I wasn’t even going to ride, but my parents told me to anyway. It turned out to be all right, it was just leaking a little bit, but I missed a moto that day because of it. The next day of the week that I was scheduled to do motos, which was Thursday, I started my first moto, but on the last lap I got a hole busted into my magneto cover. When I stopped, I noticed that there was oil on the cover. I was pretty mad. I don’t know how something got that close to my bike. I must really be dragging my foot pegs in the corners.
My Mom really got me good the next day when she picked me up from work. Before I tell you how I have to tell you why. I was mad Thursday night, talking about how the part was probably going to be two hundred bucks or something ridiculous like that. So, when she picked me up Friday evening, she said that she had ordered it and it was coming in on Tuesday, and that it was three hundred bucks! I wasn’t going to have any of that. I told her that I was just going to sent it right back, I wasn’t going to let anyone rip me off like that!
She let me go on like that for a minute of two, then, as I’m still going on about it she finally said that it was only sixty dollars... Oh... Wow, she got me good that time! I really believed her too because the OEM parts are really expensive. Well, anyway, that still didn’t solve the problem of how I was going to ride tomorrow. I got home late that day, so that kind of messed up my workout plans, and I had to go out again because we didn’t have any JB Weld or anything else to plug the hole in my magneto cover so I could ride the next day. So that day’s workouts were already messed up, but I did get my bike fixed.
The next day I was planning on going to a race, but the friend I was supposed to go with decided not to go the morning of the race because it was raining a little. Riding day number three out the window. I ended up working on my truck that day, taking out the transmission instead of riding. Wow, I think I have a normal life! I’m going to have to work on that! I can’t complain about getting my truck fixed though, when I do I’ll be able to go where I want when I want to. No more relying on Dave to take me where I need to go! Hahaha! (That’s right Dave, I’m talking to you).
Well, that rounds out another crazy week (and not in a good way) in the life of Daniel Corbin. Stay tuned for the next episode. At this rate I’ll probably be homeless and... Sorry, just kidding. Thanks to all of my great sponsors, www.coachseiji.com, Racer X VT, Twigg Cycles, Nineonenine Designs, Fly, Scott USA, Jordan’s Flooring, and everyone else who has and is helping me to live my dream. See you at the qualifiers!
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