Patent ID: 9493207
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: B60K,B62K

Claim Text:
1. A motorcycle comprising: a front wheel; a rear wheel; a seat placed between the front wheel and the rear wheel; a vehicle body frame including a front frame supporting the front wheel, and a seat frame connected to the front frame and supporting the seat; a swing arm which is rotatably connected to the front frame and supports the rear wheel such that the swing arm is vertically pivotable around a location at which the swing arm is connected to the front frame; and a rear suspension which connects the vehicle body frame to the swing arm via a link mechanism and serves to damp a pivot motion of the swing arm, wherein the seat frame includes: a pair of rail sections having rear end portions which are placed to be spaced apart from each other on both sides in a vehicle width direction relative to the rear wheel and located above an axle of the rear wheel, wherein each rail section of the pair of rail sections includes a respective branch section of the pair of branch sections and a respective rear section of the pair of rear sections, the rear suspension is placed on one side in the vehicle width direction relative to a vehicle body center line extending in a forward and rearward direction and extends in the forward and rearward direction, and the rear suspension is placed laterally in the vehicle width direction relative to the front section.