Patent ID: 7766360

Claim:
A straddle vehicle comprising: a steering handle; a handle base disposed at a substantial center of the steering handle; a headlight unit disposed in front of the handle base; a meter unit disposed above and mounted directly onto the handle base; and a fuel tank disposed behind the handle base, wherein, in a side view of the vehicle, a top surface at a front section of the fuel tank gets higher from rear to front; a top surface of the meter unit has: a forward inclined surface that is formed at a front section of the meter unit and gets lower from rear to front, a rearward inclined surface that is formed at a rear section of the meter unit and gets lower from front to rear, and a curved surface that is connected to the forward inclined surface and the rearward inclined surface and is curved upward; the rearward inclined surface substantially follows a forward extension from the top surface at the front section of the fuel tank; and a front end of the forward inclined surface is situated close to a rear section of the headlight unit.