Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshinori Oki

Hideyoshi Kosuge

Yoji Onishi

A floor structure of a four wheeled utility vehicle by which a passenger can quickly and simply maintain a proper riding posture in the case of a swing and an inclination of the vehicle. A cabin housing an operating portion of a vehicle and a passenger seat is provided between front wheels and rear wheels, and a floor constituted by a floor plate is provided in a lower end portion of the cabin. The floor plate is provided with a foot pressing surface against which a passenger can press a bottom surface of the passenger's foot. Preferably, the foot pressing surface is inclined so as to ascend in a forward direction of the vehicle.

Floor structure of four wheeled utility vehicle

An engine mounting device for a motorcycle including a plurality of support rods connected to a motorcycle body in a manner to extend crosswise therethrough, a plurality of bushes each fitted over one of the support rods and a plurality of cylindrical vibration absorbing rubber members each fitted over one of the bushes and fitted in one of mounting bores formed in an engine body. The engine mounting device further includes a plurality of spacers of a thickness smaller than the thickness of the vibration absorbing rubber members, each spacer being mounted between an outer peripheral surface of one of the bushes and an inner peripheral surface of one of the mounting bores at least in a portion in which the vibration absorbing rubber member is most compressed when the engine body is pulled rearwardly of the motorcycle body. The engine mounting device has particular utility with a motorcycle including a serrated belt or a chain mounted over a drive sprocket wheel mounted on one side of an engine and a follower sprocket wheel mounted on a shaft of a rear wheel.

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Toshinori Oki