Motor bicycle
AssigneeSuzuki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSadao Shirasagi, Seishiro Kaneta
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Abstract
A motor bicycle is provided with a main frame supporting a head tube operatively connected a steering shaft of a front wheel. The main frame includes a main tube which is connected to the head tube and extends rearwardly along the main body of the motor bicycle, and the main tube comprises two tube members extending rearwardly from the head tube with a certain angle in bilaterally oblique directions in a plan view. A helmet storage box is disposed in a space between the two tube members, the seat and the head tube so as to have an inner volume sufficient for accommodating a helmet or the like. This arrangement makes it possible to locate a fuel tank below the seat without changing the outer appearance of the motor bicycle.
Claims9
A two-wheeled motorized vehicle comprising:
- a main frame having a biforked element comprised of two frame elements extending rearwardly and downwardly along the vehicle;
- a steerable front wheel rotatably supported at a front part of the main frame;
- a rear wheel rotatably supported at a rear part of the main frame;
- an internal combustion engine carried by the main frame and connected to rotationally drive the rear wheel;
- a storage compartment disposed above the engine in the space between the two rearwardly and downwardly extending frame elements and having a size and shape sufficient to store therein a helmet for a rider;
- a seat carried by the main frame and positioned rearwardly of the storage compartment, the seat having a bottom portion extending obliquely upwardly and rearwardly;
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- a fuel tank disposed substantially between the seat and the rear wheel so as to extend obliquely upwardly and rearwardly along the bottom portion of the seat, said fuel tank having a front end portion extending towards a lower side of a rear portion of the storage compartment and having a fuel port opened upwardly at a rear end portion of the fuel tank and at a rearward portion of the seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.