Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Shin Sato

Hiroaki Tsukui

Takao Mikami

Hidetoshi Toyoda

Kuniaki Wakamatsu

Naohisa Hirao

Shin Watanabe

Shogo Kanaumi

Yuliang Cheng

Masatsugu Tanaka

Eiichi Kanda

Hiroshi Onda

A steering damper device for a two-wheeled vehicle presents a problem with regard to facilitating the viewability of a meter and to increase the degree of freedom of the meter in layout to bring down the center of gravity of the vehicle. A two-wheeled vehicle includes, at a front end of a main frame, a head pipe for rotatively supporting a steering shaft. At the front part of the head pipe, there is installed a meter stay for supporting a meter. Between the head pipe side and the steering shaft side there is interposed a steering damper device for restricting abrupt run-out of the handlebar. The steering damper device is arranged forward of the head pipe and below the meter stay to make effective use of the space of the vehicle and further to increase the degree of freedom of the meter in design.

Steering damper device for two-wheeled vehicle

To facilitating arrangement of a muffler and a rear fender without increasing the size of a motorcycle. A motorcycle includes a front wheel, an engine, and a rear wheel disposed on a vehicle body in this order from the front. An exhaust pipe extends rearwardly from the engine with a muffler provided at the rear end of the exhaust pipe. The muffler is disposed on the rear portion of the vehicle body frame between left and right rear frames above the rear wheel. Stays extend downwardly from the left and the right rear frames. A rear fender is disposed below the muffler and is attached to the stays. The muffler is tapered from the upper portion toward the lower portion when viewed from the rear. The left and the right rear frames comprise a rear seat, which is wider than the muffler, at a level higher than the muffler.

Rear structure of motorcycle

The present invention relates to an improvement in an exhaust system structure for a motorcycle. A motorcycle has an engine disposed between front and rear wheels, an exhaust pipe extending from the engine, and a silencer connected to the exhaust pipe for discharging exhaust gases. The silencer, which is a heavy object, is of the type having a gas outlet disposed near a gas inlet. The silencer is disposed below the engine with the gas inlet facing toward the rear wheel, and the exhaust pipe extends to a position near the rear wheel and is connected to the gas inlet of the silencer. By elongating the length of the exhaust pipe and placing the silencer under the engine, the exhaust system performs sufficiently with high output engines, while at the same time lowers the center of gravity of a motorcycle body and balances the weight of the motorcycle body in its longitudinal direction.

Exhaust system structure for motorcycle

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Saitama, Japan

Shin Sato