This is from a KTM brochure that Kent Knudson got from someone in France.
Have you ever wondered if your bike should have aluminum or plastic fenders? Well, this photo may just be the answer:
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Gary
Gary,
Thanks for posting the brochure. Several items caught my eye on this machine. One item is the headlight, it looks to be different from anything I have ever seen as standard equipment on a Penton. Any idea what make it is ?
The other item is the center stand and what appears to be the lack of a side stand. If this is an early machine the side stand pivot might be hidden in the front area of the swingarm, or did the Euro machines possibly use a different swingarm?
Thanks again, and thanks to Kent for keeping his eagle eye out for the unusual items...
Paul
The carb appears to be a bigger BING with the screw on top, not the threaded on top.
Paul,
The headlight looks like ones used by various other Spanish Companies like Ossa and Montesa. As European have such strict laws (even the handlebars have to approved by the government) maybe this is a KTM just for the Spanish Market.....but it is in English?
Ron Carbaugh
There is some info on the Rugginose site on the different headlights on the European KTMs. As I recall there is some knowledge on which headlights were supplied to different markets even within Europe itself (I.e. Diff headlights for Italy vs. Germany). I'll try to find it but I think there were "Aprilia" branded headlights used.
There is a vast pool of info on differences between market models but most of it needs to be acquired by plumb-bobbing the depths of foreign language sources.
As an example see the critique of a "Berkshire" steel tanker resto that I posted a bad translation of here a year or so ago that gets into a similar topic and reveals a strong knowledge of Penton history.
http://pentonusa.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9745&SearchTerms=a,steel,tank,resto
In the meantime if you look at the "70 years of KTM" site photos I think you'll see plenty of the "thinner" headlights with double chrome trim rings at the lens seal.Almost like moped lights. Regards, John
Here's the rest of the brochure:
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It's strange that the cover is written in what looks to be German, Italian, and English, but all of the text inside is only in English.
Check out the stinger on the 250 pipe.
The 250 has plastic fenders, and 175 has aluminum fenders, so I wonder why when they photographed the 100cc, why they had an aluminum front fender and a plastic rear fender? Why wouldn't you take a fender off of one of the other bikes so the fenders would match?
My 6-Day has a type 84-2 Bing carb on it and it is 28mm. Looks just like the one in the Pic. My Brother told me he had {Collins and Sons,Local Penton shop) put it on when I was in the army back in 74.
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72 six-day
Has anyone ever seen that louvered side panel on the 250?If so where can I find one.
Is that a plastic or glass rear fender on that first pic of the red 100cc ?
Raymond
Down East Pentons
Raymond -- My strong presumption is that it is a Falk plastic. Becomes very brittle over time, and maybe they always were brittle. My 74 HS has an original one on the rear and it is yellowed/faded where the sun has deteriorated the plastic and has a couple of small pieces chipped out of it. You can sort of see a chip just toward the end of the pipe in this photo.
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@Auto -- you can see plenty of those vented side panels on the Euro KTMs on other sites but I haven't seen them for sale as repops and not sure Pentons ever had 'em that way.
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