Patent ID: 7905803

Claim:
A straddle-type vehicle comprising: a V-belt continuously variable transmission arranged to transmit a driving force of an engine to a driving wheel, the V-belt continuously variable transmission including: a primary sheave disposed on a primary sheave shaft, to which the driving force of the engine is input, and including a movable sheave half and a fixed sheave half arranged to define a V-groove adapted to receive a belt; a secondary sheave disposed on a secondary sheave shaft, from which a driving force for the driving wheel is output, and including a movable sheave half and a fixed sheave half arranged to define a V-groove adapted to receive a belt; a V-belt received in the respective V-grooves of the primary sheave and the secondary sheave to transmit a rotational driving force between the primary and secondary sheaves; an electric motor; a control device arranged to control the electric motor; and a sheave drive mechanism arranged to transmit a driving force of the electric motor to the movable sheave half of the primary sheave to control respective groove widths of the primary sheave and the secondary sheave; wherein the movable sheave half of the primary sheave is located on an outer side in a vehicle width direction with respect to the fixed sheave half of the primary sheave; the sheave drive mechanism is located on an outer side in the vehicle width direction with respect to the movable sheave half of the primary sheave; a footrest of the straddle-type vehicle is located on an outer side of the V-belt continuously variable transmission in the vehicle width direction and below the primary sheave shaft and the secondary sheave shaft; at least a portion of the electric motor is located above and in front of the primary sheave shaft in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle as viewed in a sheave shaft direction; and the primary sheave and the electric motor overlap with each other as viewed in the sheave shaft direction.