Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Tomokatsu Suda

Masao Ogawa

Susumu Michisaka

Shunichi Nakabayashi

Kanta Yamamoto

Kazuo Sato

Tetsu Horiuchi

Tomofumi Kuramitsu

Toshio Miura

Hiroshi Kishi

In a motorcycle including a screen, a meter panel is arranged at the vehicle front of a rider, and a visor is arranged at the vehicle front of the meter panel. The visor is higher than the meter panel to form an air intake for taking in traveling wind between the visor and the meter panel. A duct extends to a rear side of the screen from the air intake at the vehicle rear of the visor, so that the duct can introduce traveling wind to the rear side of the screen.

Front structure of motorcycle

A vehicle having a side cover capable of sending a sufficient amount of cooling air to a radiator even without a front cover or cowling. Side covers are disposed on both right and left side surfaces for covering a radiator. An air admission portion for drawing in a cooling air for cooling the radiator is provided in each of the side covers. A main step is disposed outside of each of the air admission portions with a footpeg portion provided on a top surface thereof and a step portion projecting upwardly at a front end portion thereof. The step portion is substantially at the same position in the fore-aft direction of the vehicle as a front end of the air admission portion. The footpeg surfaces is located near a rear portion of a front wheel with the main step structure ensuring an even more comfortable and easy riding position.

Vehicle

A load receiving pipe extends from a separate frame and has a closed portion at the extremity thereof. A meter unit is disposed immediately behind the closed portion. Accordingly, the meter unit can be accommodated in a limited space in front of a handle post cover and behind the load receiving pipe, and the probability that a load on the load receiving pipe comes into contact with the meter unit can be avoided. Therefore, the appearance of the front portion of a vehicle body can be improved while improving the load receiving capacity at the front of the vehicle body.

A frame assembly for a motorized vehicle includes a vehicle body frame with an upper frame, a lower basket frame integrally attached to and extending downwardly from the upper frame, and an auxiliary frame which is separate from and operatively attached to the vehicle body frame. The upper frame includes a head pipe, a tubular main frame section attached to the head pipe, a pair of seat rails extending rearwardly in a divergent fashion from the main frame section, and a rear crossbar interconnecting the seat rails at rear portions thereof. The lower basket frame comprises left and right down tubes extending downwardly in a divergent fashion from the head pipe, a pair of left and right lower pipes extending rearwardly from lower ends of the respective down tubes, and a pair of medial frame sections extending between rear ends of the lower pipes and the seat rails. The auxiliary frame has a width substantially equal to a distance between the left and right lower pipes.

Motorized vehicle, and related frame structure

Two-wheel vehicle with side covers

An air cleaner device is provided for a scooter-type vehicle which can prevent foreign substances from entering an air intake port of an air cleaner even when the air cleaner is arranged at a position out of protection of the vehicle body cover. An air intake port cover covers the air intake port of the air cleaner and also covers a cooling air suction port of the power unit. The leakage of suction sound from the cooling air suction port can be prevented simultaneously.

Air cleaner apparatus for scooter-type vehicle

A motorcycle having a loading space for stably loading luggage. Luggage may be loaded onto a rear loading space with the luggage being fixed by fastening a rope to a grab rail. A seat back is provided that also functions as a passenger seat. When only one person rides, luggage can be loaded onto the rear space and can be fastened by hanging the luggage on a hook directly or indirectly using the rope. As the hook disappears when a seat back that also functions as a passenger seat is positioned to be substantially horizontal, the appearance quality is not damaged. Therefore, luggage can be stably loaded and a larger quantity of luggage can be carried by the motorcycle. Left and right slider are provided for permitting free longitudinal movement of the seat from a substantially horizontal position to a raised position.

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Tomokatsu Suda