Patent ID: 8342282

Claim:
A motorcycle comprising: a body frame provided with a front wheel and a rear wheel; a fuel tank mounted on the body frame for holding a fuel; a canister for absorbing fuel vapor generated in the fuel tank; and a pair of left and right tandem steps provided on the body frame for supporting a foot of a pillion passenger, wherein the canister is disposed along the body frame at a position outside the body frame in a width direction of the motorcycle and closer to the body frame than a tip end of one of the left and right tandem steps, wherein the body frame includes retainer brackets for retaining respective ones of the tandem steps, and the canister is arranged to overlap the retainer brackets in the width direction of the motorcycle, wherein the retainer brackets have a V-shaped configuration extending downwards from the body frame, the tandem steps are mounted to lower ends of the V-shaped retainer brackets, a bridge member is mounted to extend transversely across a vertically intermediate portion of one of the V-shaped retainer brackets which is associated with said one tandem step, and the canister is removably mounted to the bridge member, and wherein the canister is disposed at a position outside the retainer brackets.