Patent ID: 8550200

Claim:
A vehicle body frame of a motorcycle comprising: a head pipe; a pair of left and right tank rail portions including a widening portion having a width increasing in a vehicle width direction, on a plan view of a vehicle, extending rearward of the vehicle from the head pipe, a parallel portion having a substantially fixed width in the vehicle width direction, and a narrowing portion having a width decreasing the vehicle width direction, the widening portion, the parallel portion and the narrowing portion subsequently extending along left and right sides of the vehicle body of a motorcycle, respectively; a pair of left and right rear arm bracket portions bending and extending from rear ends of the tank rail portions, respectively; and an engine suspension stay portion provided substantially downward from the tank rail portion across a front frame part and a rear frame part, the engine suspension stay portion being a frame member having an inverted triangular shape including the tank rail portion on one side, wherein the parallel portion is formed to the engine suspension stay portion and the tank rail portion forms the inverted triangular shape, and wherein the vehicle body frame is constituted by the front frame part and the rear frame part connected through a frame connecting surface substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the parallel portion, wherein the engine suspension stay portion is provided with a front engine suspension portion so as to support a front portion of an engine of the motorcycle, and the engine suspension stay portion includes a front stay part and a rear stay part connected through a stay connecting surface, and the front engine suspension portion is disposed to the front stay portion, wherein the front engine suspension portion is disposed in a vicinity of a vertex of the inverted triangular shape, and the stay connecting surface is disposed in a vicinity of the front engine suspension portion, and wherein the front stay part and the rear stay part are integrally formed with the front frame part and the rear frame part, respectively, in a manner such that the front frame part is formed by integrally casting the head pipe, a front side of the tank rail portion and a front stay of the front engine suspension portion of the engine suspension stay portion, and the rear frame part is formed by integrally casting a rear side of the tank rail portion and the rear arm bracket.