Download or read book John Penton and the Off-Road Motorcycle Revolution written by Ed Youngblood and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Penton has spent his life redefining off-road motorcycling. Here Ed Youngblood presents an exhaustive review of the man and his machine, explaining how major political and economic events affected the creation of the off-road motorcycle in the 1960s, the decline of the market during the 1970s, and the rebound that found KTM motorcycles competing successfully against powerful Japanese manufacturers in the 1990s.