New Inwards 1958, Lav Penton's Married Adult Woman Died At Historic Menstruum 29, In Addition To His Menage Unit Of Measurement Said They’D Accept Tending Of His 3 Children, In Addition To Hence Penton Went For A Ride To Clear His Caput In Addition To Bargain Amongst The Grief.

He left Ohio, heading for Daytona Fla, riding a 175cc NSU. He stopped inward Atlanta as well as won the Stone Mountain Enduro on the same bicycle he’d ridden from northern Ohio.

From at that spot he continued on to Florida as well as won the Alligator Enduro, thus he continued riding the NSU to enduros across the Midwest as well as continued winning, including earning his showtime victory at the Jack Pine. Then, upon his provide to Ohio, he was challenged past times his blood brother to pause the tape for transcontinental go held past times the legendary Cannonball Baker. He did it.

Penton was born on August 19, 1925. He grew upwardly on the household unit of measurement farm inward Amherst, Ohio. His older brothers had revived their father’s 1914 Harley-Davidson, which had been long forgotten inward the corner of a barn, as well as the Penton boys became motorcyclists as well as ran a motorbike store inward spell they competed inward off-road motorbike races. John became a entitle passenger equally good equally fabricator as well as mechanic.

In 1949, Penton returned to the Jack Pine Enduro, this fourth dimension on a B-33 BSA. He finished inward 2nd past times exclusively a unmarried indicate to winner Bert Cummings, a Michigan dealer as well as veteran of the event. That second-place complete stoked the burn downwards inward Penton. From that indicate on, his mission was to abide by a improve performing enduro motorcycle.

 He realized the heavy machines similar the Harley’s, BSA’s as well as Triumph’s they all were riding could endure beaten past times smaller, lightweight bikes, a revolutionary thought at the time.

 In the 60s, he served equally the eastern distributor of Husqvarna, a motorbike that revolutionized the sports of motocross, enduro as well as desert racing inward the U.S.

John Penton believed he knew improve than anybody what would run best inward the basis of off-road motorcycles. As it turns out he was right. When everyone else thought bulldogging large bikes through the dirt was the agency to go, he wanted to ride a piffling bike. By the fourth dimension everyone hopped on board the piffling bikes, he was thinking nearly something else – a role built off-road bike. He (and after his sons) influenced the agency bikes were built, the agency they were sold, where they could endure ridden, as well as what people wore when riding them.

When his attempts to convince Husky to attain a smaller, lighter motorbike savage on deaf ears, Penton created his ain pattern as well as commissioned KTM, a pocket-size moped as well as cycle maker inward Austria, to construct it.

The motorbike was an instant success inward off-road contest as well as led KTM to expand its efforts inward the motorbike realm, initially inward conjunction amongst Penton as well as ultimately on its own. Today, KTM is the largest manufacturer of motorcycles exterior of Nippon as well as winning championships unopen to the world.

He besides founded Hi-Point, a kick as well as wearing clothing fellowship that for a fourth dimension boasted over one-half the sales inward the the States market.

if whatever singular passenger deserves to accept a characteristic length documentary developed nearly their life, it’s him, equally Penton is largely considered the founding manlike somebody nurture of modern off-road riding.

The resulting celluloid is a dandy will to non exclusively how pregnant John Penton was, simply besides how much he is notwithstanding revered.



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