Engine support structure for saddled vehicle

An engine support structure for a saddled vehicle, the structure comprising an engine mounting portion provided at a vehicle body frame, and a mounted portion provided at an engine and mounted to the engine mounting portion with a bolt member and a damper mechanism, wherein

• the engine mounting portion has a mount hole penetrating in a vehicle width direction and having a center in the vehicle width direction smaller in diameter than ends in the vehicle width direction,
• the mounted portion has a female screw hole,
• the damper mechanism includes a pair of tuboid damper members each having a minor radial end, a major radial end, and a tapered outer peripheral surface, and the damper members are fitted to the mount hole with the minor radial ends facing each other in the vehicle width direction,
• the bolt member is inserted through the damper members in the vehicle width direction to be screwed to the female screw hole, to restrain shift of the damper members in the vehicle width direction between a head of the bolt member and the mounted portion, and
• the tapered outer peripheral surfaces of the damper members are in abutment with a tapered inner peripheral surface of the mount hole to allow the damper members to be compressed axially and radially with respect to the bolt member.