• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Glenn Kearney and his new 310cc engine

note please don't misread my intentions and get defensive for Glenn. the comments I made are from a strictly sports training mindset. No bashing or high and mighty attitude with me, the guy flat rips no doubt, we are being fans hoping for box finishes for our brand and hopefully with GK at the controls for 2011.
The guy can get to the next level no doubt, but only he can choose the path to get there and time is getting short in this little part of the sports world, again, imho his mind and body needs a shake up, a new program, to get on the box regularly. Glenn, we are cheering for you, put that 310 on the box man****************************************
 
As a racer, I see consistant results even though things around him change. That is not easy to accomplish.

I don't think that anybody will be putting Husky on the GNCC overall box unless the Suzuki, Yamaha, and KTM guys take the day off - that is the cold truth.

I'm also guessing that Russell didn't have to wait until midseason for his 310 cylinder... ;)
 
letitsnow;122981 said:
Some of you experts crack me up. Glenn has done very well for the support that he has been given. Unless YOU can beat him (or even race 2 hours without him lapping you) you should probably keep it shut...
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False argument.... It's not about whether I can beat Glenn or not. It's about who can win races and championships for Husky. Glenn has had way more support, than Paul Whibley did when he won the GNCC Championship last year. Whibs won it as pretty much a barely support rider, riding for Kawi contingency money. Geico pays some expenses for shroud space, but doesn't foot the whole bill. Whibs and Jarrett bought their own bikes.
 
Kearney has performed very well. Not to mention there are only three guys that are doing BOTH GNCC and Nat'l Enduro this year. He has had consistent finishes around 6 to 8th in both and I don't recall any DNFs (I'm guessing there was one somewhere). He's a rock solid racer and deserves that credit. And I'm betting that almost every pro off roader will be asked by their brand to race two series next year so the brands get more for their investment. He was ahead of the curve there.

Whibs AND Mullins were seemingly picked up for a song this past January. It would have been nice to see Husky add another top contender. Yamaha and KTM have more than one guy that could overall it and I think we'd like to see Husky do similar. That's what I hoped for with BMW's deep pockets
 
ARod2000;123101 said:
Kearney has performed very well. Not to mention there are only three guys that are doing BOTH GNCC and Nat'l Enduro this year. He has had consistent finishes around 6 to 8th in both and I don't recall any DNFs (I'm guessing there was one somewhere). He's a rock solid racer and deserves that credit. And I'm betting that almost every pro off roader will be asked by their brand to race two series next year so the brands get more for their investment. He was ahead of the curve there.

Whibs AND Mullins were seemingly picked up for a song this past January. It would have been nice to see Husky add another top contender. Yamaha and KTM have more than one guy that could overall it and I think we'd like to see Husky do similar. That's what I hoped for with BMW's deep pockets
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Husky's error was to throw all of its small budget into one rider. Some other riders with good results, like Mark Fortner got nothing. That's why Mark is riding an '08 WR250 with yellow and blue plastic.

The day I lost faith in Glenn, was the first Husky Dealer meeting. Glenn was still racing for the Scott Summers Team and he had a mathematical chance to beat Jason Raines for the AMA Eastern Hare Scrambles Championship that weekend ... He choose to go to the Husky Dealer Meeting to pitch his own team for '09. Glenn did finish ahead of Jason in the GNCC final standings and that makes it harder to take. Scott went and won the Vet A Championship for Husky that weekend and was then let go by Husky (Anyone here remember that?). I guess it was the right decision for Glenn, because he got two more years with Husky, but was it the right decision for Husky? I'd have a lot more respect for Glenn, if he fought that Championship to the last race, which he didn't. I'll leave at that......
 
I qualified for the Montreal EX, but gave up my place to a younger rider. Whats the point in finishing dead last anyways. :busted:

One less TC250 Husky on the line.
 
Why was my post deleted? Norman gets to come on here and slam Kearney at will, and the response from a mod is ''nobody is saying anything bad about Glenn'' ??? Then my other post is deleted ???
 
letitsnow;123206 said:
Why was my post deleted? Norman gets to come on here and slam Kearney at will, and the response from a mod is ''nobody is saying anything bad about Glenn'' ??? Then my other post is deleted ???
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I am not sure what you are referring to. No one has deleted any of your posts. Maybe take a look around a bit more?

People sometimes forget which thread, or even which forum, they posted on. One person was quite upset until they realized what they had posted was on smj.
 
letitsnow;123050 said:
As a racer, I see consistant results even though things around him change. That is not easy to accomplish.

I don't think that anybody will be putting Husky on the GNCC overall box unless the Suzuki, Yamaha, and KTM guys take the day off - that is the cold truth.

I'm also guessing that Russell didn't have to wait until midseason for his 310 cylinder... ;)
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Good post for the most part :thumbsup: Hell even some of the former Husky PRO"S need training wheels. I'll leave at that too ......
 
letitsnow;123206 said:
Why was my post deleted? Norman gets to come on here and slam Kearney at will, and the response from a mod is ''nobody is saying anything bad about Glenn'' ??? Then my other post is deleted ???
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I don't think anyone slammed anyone...at will or otherwise. Norm Just stated as did others that maybe time for newer/younger blood. And thankfully you DID notice your post was not deleted and am hoping that for a moment you did not add 2 and 2 and get 5 thinking a mod was not being just that...a mod.
Sincerely
Joe
 
"I'm not sure he rocks.... Glenn is consistently beaten by XC2 riders in GNCC. His overalls are lower than his XC1 placings. Even when he got an XC1 podium this year, he was 4th overall, 2nd 250F to Russell."

I take that as a slam. Maybe I am too sensitive??? :excuseme:
 
Norman Foley;122871 said:
Sorry Rob, but as nice a young man as Glenn is... his day has passed. I've watched him for a long time back east and he just doesn't have what it takes to win at the top level. Fred Hoess, who is no Spring Chicken, jumped on a stock TXC 250 with a pipe and beat Glenn with a highly massaged TXC250 at the Maine National Enduro.

Glenn has had 3 seasons on Huskys with fairly poor results. He blamed the first seasons results on Scott Summers, he blamed the second on Wyatt Sealls. Who is at fault this time.... Husky putting him on the TXC250? He wanted to ride it and other XC2 riders on 250F's can beat him. If Rodney Smith couldn't bring the champion out in Glenn, then I guess it isn't there. Husky need a new team... period.
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^^^ I take that as a slam also.
 
letitsnow;123255 said:
"I'm not sure he rocks.... Glenn is consistently beaten by XC2 riders in GNCC. His overalls are lower than his XC1 placings. Even when he got an XC1 podium this year, he was 4th overall, 2nd 250F to Russell."

I take that as a slam. Maybe I am too sensitive??? :excuseme:
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These are simple statements of fact about his performance.... Racing is about where you place, the results are for all to see. The goal is to win or at least place on the podium. I will say, Glenn looks like he will end up possibly 5th for the year in GNCC XC1.
 
Norman Foley;123266 said:
These are simple statements of fact about his performance..
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Coming from the guy that stated that the last race was wet. :lol:

And statements like "His day has passed".... Not just facts bud - you added your own little twist. ;)
 
Personally I hope Glenn does return back to oz -he may be happier as long as there is a good series here - and with the likes of Merriman and Toby Price here he would have a good challenge
He may also suit the different format to GNCC - more of a sprinter
He needs to think of the future anyway as you arent at the top for long regardless of winning or not
 
letitsnow;123271 said:
Coming from the guy that stated that the last race was wet. :lol:

And statements like "His day has passed".... Not just facts bud - you added your own little twist. ;)
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I corrected myself on that one and I'm entitled to my opinion and as you are also.
 
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