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Gavin Housh
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USA
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 Posted - 07/26/2010 : 11:13:00 PM
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| I don't know who these folks are but I like the home made leg guard Do you think it's made from pillow covers and old bedding? No gloves or helmet, cut off jeans, tee-shirts. Too cool. |
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dennis brown
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USA
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Posted - 07/27/2010 : 07:35:28 AM
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tom and jack penton on the first ktms to come over ridiing on penton property ,this just before pentons being made 1967
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kip kern
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USA
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Posted - 07/27/2010 : 11:43:08 AM
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| Jeff and Jack Penton on Comets/Hansa? |
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TGTech
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USA
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Posted - 07/27/2010 : 12:13:41 PM
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I think these bikes were in the Spring of 1966 before Jack broken the first bike. Then when KTM sent us the first racing bike in the Summer of 1966.
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rob w
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USA
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Posted - 07/27/2010 : 9:41:30 PM
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By Ed Youngblood
Looks like Jack is riding the modified version - no fenders, ditched the airbox, larger rear sprocket, and knobby tires.
Thanks for adding this great picture.
Bob
Now that I'm looking closer - they have two different frames.
Jeff's with a double down tube, skid plate, high pipe.
Jacks' with a single down tube, and mid-pipe.
They also have different seats, and forks. |
Edited by - rob w on 07/27/2010 9:56:42 PM |
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G Ellis
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USA
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Posted - 07/28/2010 : 2:53:55 PM
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The pads on Jeff's right leg are knee pads. This is so you don't burn your legs on the muffler.  Later Gary |
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garrettccovington
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USA
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Posted - 07/29/2010 : 12:03:17 AM
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Darn't,,,, I was sure it was Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson, 1963 Germany. All well maybe next time :)
G
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Dwight Rudder
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USA
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Posted - 07/29/2010 : 01:57:08 AM
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| Fritz Dengel was the importer for PUCH and then HERCULES. Doug Wilford worked for Dengel in 1974 and 1975. He was the importer for Hercules when I first started racing for them. |
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Paul Danik
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Posted - 08/07/2010 : 06:16:41 AM
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A big thanks goes out to Jeff Borer for bringing his 2 Hansas to the POG meeting the other night. I wish Jack had been in town to look at them and possibly tell us a little about his experience while riding the one in the homepage photo. I do believe that the story goes that he broke the front end off of it when he raced it locally.
It was interesting to look at the bikes in the KTM parking lot after the meeting and pick out some of the items on them that were carried over into the production of the first Pentons.
There were a number of similarities in the frame, and the hubs and light switch sure looked familiar as well as a few other items. There wasn't an airbox on either bike but it is supposed to be very close in design to the very early Penton airbox.
The home page photo reminds me of another picture, it is the one that is on the cover of a Penton brochure that has Jack and his brother Jeff coming off a MX jump, side by side on CMF 125 machines. If one of you folks has that brochure and could scan the picture into this thread I would appreciate it.
Thanks again to Dane for coming up with the homepage photo, and thanks also to Bill and Karen for the work that they do in putting the home page photo up on the home page, as well as all the other website items that they tend to.
Volunteerism is alive and well in the POG 
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rob w
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USA
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Posted - 08/07/2010 : 08:25:06 AM
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Paul Danik
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Posted - 08/07/2010 : 1:46:47 PM
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Mr. Wardlow,
I knew I could count of you. Thank you sir.....
It is no wonder that the picture on the cover of that brochure looks so perfectly staged, they had obviously been practicing for it for years
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rob w
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USA
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Posted - 08/12/2010 : 11:09:22 PM
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One day you're a couple of boys popping wheelies around the farm - and the next, you're international superstars. Amazing story
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Home Page Photo Quiz - July 2010
