Patent ID: 7350881

Claim:
A motorcycle provided with an antilock brake system, comprising: a head pipe; a front fork supporting a front wheel supported to be rotatable by the head pipe located at a front end portion of a body frame of the motorcycle; a handle-bar secured to one end portion of the head pipe; at least one master cylinder attached to the handle-bar and connected to hydraulic wheel brakes, respectively, via brake pipes; and an ABS-unit for antilock control disposed in an intermediate portion of the brake pipes, immediately behind the head pipe and between a pair of body frame components disposed on lateral sides of the motorcycle body frame and extending, from the head pipe, obliquely downward and backward, while extending outward in directions opposite to each other in a width direction of the motorcycle body frame, wherein an axis line of a drive motor for the ABS-unit and a hydraulic pump are directed in a direction substantially perpendicular to a front axis line of one of the paired body frame components, and the ABS-unit is disposed so that the drive motor thereof faces outward from a window hole immediately behind the head pipe, the window hole being opened outwardly in the width direction of the motorcycle body frame.