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n. A pentagonal capsomere of an adenovirus capsid.
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Penton was a brand of off-road motorcycle introduced in 1968 by John Penton, a noted enduro rider on the dirt bike competition circuit, who was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998.
Penton approached the KTM company, which at the time made bicycles and mopeds, to build a light-weight off-road motorcycle. The first Penton motorcycles used a modified small-capacity Sachs engine with improved suspension and details.
The early motorcycles made their mark in International Six Days Trials (now called the International Six Days Enduro) competitions, Enduro races like the Michigan Jack Pine Endurance Run, Scrambles and Motocross with riders such as future Motorcycle Hall of Fame members Billy Uhl and Carl Cranke. The most popular size was the 125cc (Six Day), but they were also made in 100 cc (Berkshire) and later, in 175 cc (Jackpiner, in 1972), 250 cc (Hare Scrambler, in 1973), and 400 cc (Mint, in 1974).
Beginning in 1972 fiberglass gas tanks were introduced and all of the 175 cc and larger models used KTM engines. In 1974 longer travel gas forks with laid-down rear shocks for longer suspension travel, lightweight plastic fenders and frames of high grade chrome-moly steel were introduced. In 1976 two distinct models appeared for the first time differentiating between Motocross use (MC5) and Enduro (Cross County). The MC5 MX series used longer travel leading-axle, magnesium slider forks to complement the high lever-ratio rear suspension configuration making all but the 125 a competitive Motocross model.
Other, less-common models included the Mudlark observed-trials motorcycle (made by Wassell in England), the Cafe MX (a dual purpose version of the Mudlark), the Hiro 125 (the Six Day with an Italian motor), the Woodsman (an enduro version of the Mudlark) and the K-R (Kenny Roberts) short-track racer.
Production, development and distribution was taken over completely by KTM Austria in 1978.
The 1997 KTM Jackpiner 200 LE was a limited production run of the first 200 cc KTM enduro motorcycle. It was built to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first Penton KTM motorcycle. It came with Penton blue plastics and John Penton’s signature on a sticker attached to the front fender.
Penton is an information services and marketing company. The company's three largest revenue streams come from events, digital and marketing services. Although Penton had a long history (see below) as a trade publisher, in 2015 it reported that 35 percent of its EBITDA derived from digital products, 54 percent from events, and 11 percent from print. The main industry segments served by Penton include agriculture, transportation, natural products/food, infrastructure, and design and manufacturing.
The company is descended from Penton Publishing, founded by John Penton in 1904 to bring together production of several trade magazine titles, including Foundry, which he had created in Detroit in 1892.
Penton's global headquarters had been in the Penton Media Building in Downtown Cleveland, Ohio since 2000. However, after the Penton/Prism merger, the company is now headquartered in New York City, although it continues to maintain offices in Cleveland and other U.S. cities, with an employee base of approximately 1,350 people.
Due to reduced advertising sales as customers shifted to digital media from print, Penton went through "pre-packaged" bankruptcy reorganization in 2010.
Penton is a motorcycle brand.
Penton may also refer to:
- Penton, Alabama
- Penton, New Jersey
- Penton Mewsey, a village in Hampshire, England
- Penton (company), a business-to-business media company
- Penton (surname)
In geometry "penton" refers to a pentagonal face of a polygon that includes pentagonal faces. For example, a regular dodecahedron contains 20 pentagonal faces, or 20 pentons. This use of the term penton appears in the article on Adenoviridae in the description of the capsid of this family of viruses.
Penton is a surname, and may refer to:
- Arthur Pole Penton (1854–1920), British major general in the Royal Artillery
- Aurelia Pentón (born 1941), Cuban athlete
- Baven Penton (1890–?), English professional footballer
- Brian Penton (1904–1951), Australian journalist and novelist
- Frederick Thomas Penton (1851–1929), British army officer and politician
- James Penton, Canadian historian
- John Penton, American football coach
- Henry Penton (disambiguation)
- Richard Howard Penton (1882–1960), English marine and landscape painter
- John Penton, American Enduro motorcycle pioneer
Usage examples of "penton".
William Guppy, of Penton Place, Pentonville, in the county of Middlesex, and myself.
Mort Weisinger, for a series of stories under his own name, built around the characters of Penton and Blake, two fugitives from Earth.
Reverend Penton Adams of the Church of Sanctified Apostles was a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher.
Primarily known as a writer of superior space opera like the Penton and Blake stories and THE MIGHTIEST MACHINE 1934 in the Stuart persona he changed to an emphasis on reflection and the responses of human beings to technology and the human condition.
No said Paul, striding down Penton Place and noung the runAown look of the terraced houses.
A queerly mischievous, chuckling gurgle came from the empty air beside him, and it seemed to Penton that a sort of vertical heat wave in the air danced down the street, to vanish as suddenly as it had come into being.
On the corner of Maygood Street and Penton Street there was an employment office, where people went to sign on for dole money.
Rod let out a loud yip, and made tracks rapidly extending themselves toward the point where he'd last seen Ted Penton.
Penton bent over his pile of magnesium metal, and a moment later a terrific flare of blue-white light glared through the enveloping pall of phosphorus pentoxide smoke.