Motorcycle
AssigneeYamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakahiro Sumi, Shuji Tominaga, Masaomi Suzuki
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Abstract
A motorcycle with enhanced control of a vehicle body is disclosed. The motorcycle includes: a body frame; a rear arm with an elongated hole formed therein; a rear wheel; a shaft; an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the front-to-rear position of the shaft; and a fastener member for fastening the shaft to the rear arm. The adjustment mechanism includes: a first cover member having a first insertion opening formed therein and facing one of the sides of the rear arm; and a second cover member having a second insertion opening formed therein and facing the other one of the sides of the rear arm.
Claims10
A motorcycle comprising:
- a vehicle body including a body frame;
- a rear arm supported by the body frame, the rear arm being rotatable in a top-to-bottom direction, an elongated hole being formed in the rear arm and extending in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle body;
- a rear wheel supported by a rear portion of the rear arm;
- a shaft configured to pass through a center of the rear wheel and configured to be inserted through the elongated hole;
- an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a front-to-rear position of the shaft within the elongated hole;
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- a fastener member configured to fasten the shaft to the rear arm;
- wherein the adjustment mechanism includes:
- a first cover member having a first insertion opening formed therein through which the shaft is to be inserted, the first cover member facing one of a left side of the rear arm and a right side of the rear arm;
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- a second cover member having a second insertion opening formed therein through which the shaft is to be inserted, the second cover member facing the other one of the left side of the rear arm and the right side of the rear arm;
- wherein the first cover member covers at least part of a portion of said one of the left and right sides of the rear arm that is disposed forward of the elongated hole and at least part of a portion of said one of the left and right sides of the rear arm that is disposed rearward of the elongated hole, independent of an adjustment position of the adjustment mechanism;
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- wherein the second cover member covers at least part of a portion of said other one of the left and right sides of the rear arm that is disposed forward of the elongated hole and at least part of a portion of said other one of the left and right sides of the rear arm that is disposed rearward of the elongated hole, independent of the adjustment position of the adjustment mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.