Vehicle
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKiyotaka Uemura, Yoshiharu Matsumoto
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Abstract
A vehicle that is able to improve visibility of the light member (turning indicator) mounted to the front side of the motorcycle body, is preferably an underbone type motorcycle, and includes an engine, a head pipe disposed above the front of the engine, a main frame extending downward in the rear direction from the head pipe and disposed above the engine. In addition, the vehicle includes handlebars disposed above the head pipe, a cover member for covering the handlebars, a headlight disposed at the front sides of the cover member, a cover member for covering the front side of the head pipe, and width indicators and turn signals disposed at the front side of the cover member.
Claims10
A vehicle comprising:
- an engine;
- a head pipe arranged above a front of the engine;
- a frame extending from the head pipe downward in a rear direction and arranged above the engine;
- handlebars arranged above the head pipe;
- a first cover member arranged to cover the handlebars;
- a first light member mounted to a front side of the first cover member;
- a second cover member, separate and spaced from the first cover member, arranged to cover a front side of the head pipe;
- a second light member mounted to the front side of the second cover member;
- and
- a front fork arranged beneath the head pipe, a front wheel arranged beneath the front fork, and a front fender attached to the front wheel and spaced away from and below the second cover member, wherein a height between a front-most lower end portion of the second cover member and an upper-most front end portion of the second cover member is smaller than a radius of the front wheel, and a height between a bottom of the second cover and a top of the front fender is larger than a height between a top of the front wheel and the top of the front fender;
- wherein
- in a lateral side view of the vehicle, a line passing through the front-most lower end portion and the upper-most front end portion of the second cover member intersects a line extending through an axis of the head pipe at a location in a vicinity of the handlebars.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.