Leaning vehicle

A leaning vehicle comprising:

• a vehicle body which leans left with turning of the leaning vehicle leftward in a left-right direction of the leaning vehicle, and leans right with turning of the leaning vehicle rightward in the left-right direction of the leaning vehicle;
• a left wheel disposed at a left side of a center of the vehicle body in the left-right direction of the vehicle body;
• a right wheel disposed at a right side of the center of the vehicle body in the left-right direction of the vehicle body, and at a right side of the left wheel;
• a leaning mechanism including a support arm for each of the left wheel and the right wheel to support the left wheel and the right wheel, the support arm being supported by the vehicle body in a rotatable manner about a rotation axis extending in a front-back direction of the vehicle body and the support arm being configured to lean the vehicle body, the left wheel and the right wheel in a same direction;
• a leaning drive mechanism including a drive source for generating a driving force which causes the support arm to rotate with respect to the vehicle body, the leaning drive mechanism being supported by the vehicle body;
• and
• a leaning brake mechanism applying a resistance to a rotation of the support arm with respect to the vehicle body, wherein
• the leaning drive mechanism includes a gear and a rotary shaft connected to the drive source and the support arm, and rotating in an interlocking manner with the support arm, and a gear casing member accommodating at least a portion of the gear and a portion of the rotary shaft, and the leaning drive mechanism transmits the driving force generated by the drive source to the support arm through the gear and the rotary shaft,
• the leaning brake mechanism includes:
• a brake member which is directly connected to one of the gear or the rotary shaft, and rotates in an interlocking manner with the support arm by way of the gear or the rotary shaft to which the brake member is directly connected;
• and a resistance applying member which applies a resistance to a motion of the brake member with respect to the vehicle body, and
• the gear and the rotary shaft of the leaning drive mechanism and the brake member of the leaning brake mechanism are rotatable with respect to the gear casing member of the leaning drive mechanism, and are supported by the vehicle body in a rotatable manner by way of the gear casing member of the leaning drive mechanism.