Motorcycle
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideaki Kawai
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Abstract
A motorcycle comprises a front wheel; a rear wheel; a seat; a vehicle body frame; a swing arm which supports the rear wheel such that the swing arm is vertically pivotable around a location at which the swing arm is connected to a front frame; and a rear suspension which connects the vehicle body frame to the swing arm via a link mechanism, wherein a seat frame includes a pair of rail sections having rear end portions which are placed to be spaced apart from each other on both sides in a vehicle width direction relative to the rear wheel and located above an axle of the rear wheel, and wherein the rear suspension is placed on one side in the vehicle width direction relative to a vehicle body center line extending in a forward and rearward direction and extends in the forward and rearward direction.
Claims8
A motorcycle comprising:
- a front wheel;
- a rear wheel;
- a seat placed between the front wheel and the rear wheel;
- a vehicle body frame including a front frame supporting the front wheel, and a seat frame connected to the front frame and supporting the seat;
- a swing arm which is rotatably connected to the front frame and supports the rear wheel such that the swing arm is vertically pivotable around a location at which the swing arm is connected to the front frame;
- and
- a rear suspension which connects the vehicle body frame to the swing arm via a link mechanism and serves to damp a pivot motion of the swing arm,
- wherein the seat frame includes a pair of rail sections having rear end portions which are placed to be spaced apart from each other on both sides in a vehicle width direction relative to the rear wheel and located above an axle of the rear wheel, and
- wherein the rear suspension is placed on one side in the vehicle width direction relative to a vehicle body center line extending in a forward and rearward direction and extends in the forward and rearward direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.