Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshio Nogami

Takayuki Fujii

Yoshihiro Matsuo

Seiichi Urashi

Shigekazu Yoshimura

Kazuo Asakura

A motorcycle has a fuel tank disposed near the front end of a motor cycle body frame and positioned substantially upwardly of the body frame, a rider's seat disposed rearwardly of the fuel tank, and an engine disposed downwardly of the body frame. A receptacle for storing a crash helment, for example, is disposed rearwardly of the fuel tank, forwardly of the rider's seat, and upwardly of the engine. The receptacle is openable and closably by at least a portion of the rider's seat which is movable back and forth or pivotally movable about an end thereof.

Motorcycle

A motorcycle has a fuel tank disposed near the front end of a motor cycle body frame and positioned substantially upwardly of the body frame, a rider's seat disposed rearwardly of the fuel tank, and an engine disposed downwardly of the body frame. A receptacle for storing a crash helmet, for example, is disposed rearwardly of the fuel tank, forwardly of the rider's seat, and upwardly of the engine. The receptacle is openable and closable by at least a portion of the rider's seat which is movable back and forth or pivotally movable about an end thereof.

A motorcycle has a head pipe, a pair of laterally spaced main frames extending rearwardly from the head pipe, and a receptacle supported on the main frames. In order to effectively utilize a space between the main frames, the receptacle has a bottom wall positioned between the main frames, the bottom wall having at least a portion positioned below a plane including an upper surface of the main frames.

A crash helmet storage device in a motorcycle having a front cowl having a portion covering at least an area in front of a handlebar of the motorcycle. The crash helmet storage device comprises a receptacle disposed in the front cowl and having an open front side, a front cover serving as a component of the front cowl and positioned in front of the receptacle, and a pair of side covers serving as other components of the front cowl and covering lateral sides of the receptacle. The front cover is separate from the side covers and act as a lid for selectively opening and covering the open front side of the receptacle.

Crash helmet storage device for motorcycles

A subsidiary fuel tank apparatus in a motorized two-wheeled vehicle of the type that a vehicle body frame having front and rear wheels is provided with an internal combustion engine in the middle, a fuel tank on the upper side, and a detachable driver's seat in the rear of the fuel tank. The vehicle body frame is provided at its rear portion with a pair of right and left back stays situated below the driver's seat and with a pair of front and rear cross members extending across the back stays so that a room space is formed between the cross members and below the driver's seat, and a subsidiary fuel tank is accommodated in the room space.

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Okayama, Japan

Yoshio Nogami