Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kawasaki Motors, Ltd.

Shigeki Yamamoto

Shigeyuki Iwata

Aya Noguchi

Chihiro Noda

There is provided a straddle type vehicle including: an engine; a fuel tank configured to store fuel to be supplied to the engine; a power generator driven by the engine; a regulator disposed below the fuel tank and configured to adjust electric power supplied from the power generator to a battery; and a regulator cover that includes a side wall covering the regulator on an outer side in a vehicle width direction and an upper wall covering an upper side of the regulator. The upper wall is formed below a side lower edge of the fuel tank to extend from an inner side to the outer side in the vehicle width direction with respect to the side lower edge.

Straddle type vehicle

The motorcycle includes an engine, a radiator configured to cool cooling water for the engine, a radiator fan configured to suck and discharge air ahead of the radiator, a fan cover guiding downward the air discharged from the radiator fan, and a side cowl disposed on a side of the radiator, in which the side cowl has a cover side lower end at a lower end of a portion positioned below a portion overlapped with the fan cover in a side view, the cover side lower end being positioned adjacent to a lower end of the fan cover.

Motorcycle

The vehicle exhaust device has an exhaust passage from an exhaust port of an engine body to an exhaust muffler provided behind the engine body, and the exhaust passage is formed by a plurality of exhaust passage forming units. The exhaust device includes an exhaust gas sensor attached to one of the exhaust passage forming units, such as a collecting pipe, halfway on the exhaust passage. At least a portion of the exhaust gas sensor is covered from a front side thereof with one of the exhaust passage forming units, such as an individual exhaust pipe, upstream of an attached position of the exhaust gas sensor.

Vehicle exhaust device

A saddle vehicle includes an engine that is between a front wheel and a rear wheel and is mounted on a vehicle frame. The saddle vehicle includes: a rear fender at least partially covering the rear wheel from above; and an air cleaner between the rear fender and the engine; wherein the air cleaner is fixed to the rear fender.

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Akashi, Japan

Shigeki Yamamoto