• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Husky Privateer Mark Fortner 9th at Ohio GNCC

A young and fast friend said that was the slickest race he's ever done. He said it was difficult just going across an open field.

Good job Husky rider!
 
Great news! A Husky privateer! These guys are really hard chargers and carrying the Husky flag veryhigh!
 
Not that 9th O/A needs any more kudos but....a little backround on the "epitome" of privateer.
Many know Mark has been top privateer for Husky in GNCC for last 3 years. But what you don't know is total old school and grit and determination.
Mark is on a 08 WR250. It runs good for him. He maintains it well. No significant changes to 09 or 10 so as a privateer, the outlay in cash for current model year did not offset the cash in pocket for operational expenses to run the GNCC series.
Despite great maintenance with local dealer support from Bottones Jo Bet Cycles, the gears for 1st gear developed an issue a week before the race which caused them to need replacing. Fran Bottone got mark a new 1st gear set and while he was at it managed to get a 5th gear from an older WR to give him a little more legs for top speed if he needed it. Mark picked up the parts Friday afternnon and went home, split cases, installed new tranny components, drove all the way to race saturday after the maintence complete, and had the finish he did.
Outstanding and shows the hallmark traits of the privateer. No fancy mechanic....good old mechanical skills brought about by a regiment of good self maintenance. No endless parts bin in a semi.....just good old local dealer support in a timeley fashion. Not to mention.....the choice of the tried and true and proven WR250 moto as a platform. That motor is a tried and true good old soldier.

Way to go Mark.
keep it up!
 
This guy is a stud .... A freggin' hard charger ... Living the life many of us wish we could ...

I wish him the best next week also!

That 08 bike is a bad a$$ ... as U stated ... no real changes needed .... Just park a stud on top and let him pin-it

Mark, if you read this, the C2 racing pipes helped my 02 CR250 greatly ... Find one if you can and put it on!
 
I agree, this guy is something else. He's a rather shy acting, good looking, hard core, make no excuses, old school tough guy, from what I can tell. I've been keeping an eye on him the past couple of years and he is the real deal, IMO. The kind a story you make a movie about.

If I had a Husky shop or a higher up position at HNA, he'd be much better taken care of, at the races at least.

I hope the best for him.
 
XC2 Results:

1. Jesse Robinson (KTM)

2. Scotty Watkins (Kaw)

3. Jason Thomas (Yam)

4. Mark Fortner (Hsq)

5. Justin Williamson (Yam)

6. David Snyder (Yam)

7. Steward Baylor Jr. (KTM)

8. Nicholas Hunter (KTM)

9. Brian Lawson (Yam)

10. Kailub Russell (KTM)

XC1 Results:

1. Cory Buttrick (KTM)

2. Josh Strang (Suz)

3. Paul Whibley (Yam)

4. Jimmy Jarrett (Kaw)

5. Chris Bach (KTM)

6. Glenn Kearney (Hsq)

7. Kenneth Gilbert (Kaw)

8. Nate Kanney (KTM)

9. Matthew Miller (Kaw)

10. Eric Bailey (Kaw)

XC1 Standings:

1. Josh Strang (196/4 wins)

2. Charlie Mullins (176/3 wins)

3. Cory Buttrick (154/1 win)

4. Paul Whibley (152)

5. Chris Bach (125)

6. Glenn Kearney (121)

7. Nate Kanney (112)

8. Barry Hawk Jr. (93)

9. Kenneth Gilbert (91)

10. Eric Bailey (76)
 
Great interview! There was a good tip at the end on a way to get a newer bigger bike also..... ;) .... I might take that advice and run with it :)
 
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