Pentonized again.

[Dale Fisher]

Well, after 35 years I've finally made a emotional and financial investment and hope to proceed with breathing life back into this 1973 Penton Berkshire project.  I'm thanking everyone in advance for helping out and offering moral support down the rocky road ahead.  Thanks go out to Al B. We'll be talking more in the near future.

On the most needed list will be the following:

Front and rear rims (these look like they were run over by a truck)

Cylinder head for a 100cc ( I know, like looking for sasquatch)

Seat (have base would need to buy foam and cover though)

MX tank (or some advise if the Clarke MC5 tank will work with the CMF Hi-breather frame)

Nothing perfect needed, this will be a rider.  Sorry for the low quality of the pictures as it is dark and gloomy here in Michigan this morning.





Dale Fisher
[email protected]
(810) 217-0040

1972 Cheney Sachs 125cc
1972 Suzuki 380cc (might make someone a nice road racer)
1973 Penton Berkshire 100cc Project
1973 Triumph TR5MX 500cc
1974 Honda MT125 w/CR125 panels and pipe (girly bike for my daughter)

[Ron]

Hi Dale,
I sent you an email, might be able to help with the seat foam and cover.
RonW

[gooddirt]

I have a 100 head and pistons. LG

[Britt Boyette]

Sorry, the Clarke MC5 tank will not work on the CMF frame. I tryed it myself and the bottom is different.

Britt Boyette
1976 125 MC5

[garrettccovington]

I bought the seat foam and cover from Al B (listed in Suppliers), used a glue gun and it cam out perfect.

G

72 six-day

[Dale Fisher]

Ron, LG, and Victor,
I have tried to contact all three of you via the POG email feature.  Ron you posted I should have recieved an email, nothing yet.  I'm not entirely sure the POG email links are working.

Ron, the seat base I have is approximately 19" long x 9" at the widest (rear) point.

LG, have cylinder and piston just need a 100cc head plus base and top end gaskets.

Victor,  I see by a previous post you may have rims and other misc. items of interest.  Need rims, front fender mount, 1 - handle bar mount bolt, all hex screws to clamp 35mm fork tube to triple clamp, chain guide, brake rod adjuster, to name just a few.

Thanks all,
Dale Fisher
[email protected]

[Ron]

Dale,
I'll email you some pic's when I get home tonight.
RonW

[Britt Boyette]

If your looking to put a smaller Penton tank on your bike, you might want to keep your eyes open for the MX tank that fits the CMF. It a beatiful looking tank that I hope Clarke will make sometime in the future.

Britt Boyette
1976 125 MC5

[tomale]

Britt, every Penton rider I have ever met is looking for an MX tank, and if they have one, they want another... there just is not that many of them. As I understand it, they were an option not a stock item. They are very cool....

Thom Green,Still crazy after all these years!
76' 250 MC5 (orginal owner)74'
250 hare scrambler (project bike)

[Britt Boyette]

I would like to find a non-usable one and have Clarke make a plastic replica from it. Anyone have one like that they would be willing to loan out for the cause?

Britt Boyette
1976 125 MC5

[Dave Mitchell]

Dale you wouldn't be the Dale Fisher I bought my first penton off of in Toledo about 1971 would you?
Dave

[Dale Fisher]

Dave,
We had two steel tankers that sold about 1972.  Both went to neighbors and current status/location unknown.  The frame numbers were V5613 & V5704.  If you ever came up to Victor Park in Milan  or Mustang Acres in Brighton perhaps we may have raced.  Picture is from Milan circa 1972.

[VICTOR MONZ]

Dale.

We must have e-mail issues...I have tried to contact you a number of times...I have all you need and the price is right !

[email protected]

Thanks and try again.

Victor

[Dave Mitchell]

Dale,I raced victor park and just about every track that was running at that time within 300 miles of Toledo.I'm sure we rode the same races.The guy I bought the steel tanker off WAS a nieghbor.I traded it to Piasecki's when I bought my 72.As a matter of fact I still have a victor park sticker on my toolbox that they gave away at the first race they held.Blaze orange with white letters.I was 00m at the time Piasecki"s jersey pretty much color of the day.Jeff Greenberg has been on the site a bunch and that picture brings back the good days.I live in Idaho now but want to hit Log Road someday.My best freind and former riding partner lives in Ida and I get back to visit occasionally.
Dave,72 Six Days

[Dave Mitchell]

Jeez Dale I must be gettin CRS.Now that I think about it The riding partner I spoke of in my last message bought his steel tanker first then took me over to the fellas house at a later date and I bought one too! Staring to seem pretty coincidental is it not.My buddies name is Dave DeLong.And lookin at the picture above you look a bit familiar I think it may be the glasses.(no pun intended) I sure had alot of fun on that bike Rode it at Dux,Blackhawks Grand Rapids and Travelers scrambles tracks till I got the 72.
Dave