US 7,552,788 B2
Motorcycle
Hidenori Satake, Shizuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha, Shizuoka-Ken (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/559,853.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-328521 (JP), filed on Nov. 14, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0107967 A1, May 17, 2007
Int. Cl. B60K 11/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 180—68.1  [180/219] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A motorcycle comprising:
a head pipe;
left and right tank rails extending in a vehicle rear direction from the head pipe; and
body covers disposed to outer sides of the tank rails in a vehicle width direction, wherein:
a vehicle width direction space between outer side sections of the tank rails becomes narrower as the outer side sections extend toward the head pipe, and
each body cover comprises:
a front side neighboring section adjacent to a front side outer side section of each tank rail that is close to the head pipe;
a rear side neighboring section further to a rear in a vehicle front-rear direction and further to an outer side in the vehicle width direction than the front side neighboring section such that the rear side neighboring section is adjacent to a rear side outer side section of each tank rail that is farther from the head pipe than the front side outer side section;
an overhanging surface that, in a plan view, is continuous with the front side neighboring section, and is disposed to the side of the front side outer side section such that the overhanging surface protrudes outwards in the vehicle width direction from the front side outer side section of the tank rails; and
a vehicle width direction continuous surface that continues from an upper edge of the overhanging surface and extends towards the front side outer side section of the tank rails in a curved shape with a predetermined angle toward the inside in the vehicle width direction.