Patent ID: 8439145

Claim:
A vehicle, comprising: a body frame including a down frame extending downwardly from a head pipe, a lower frame extending rearwardly from a lower portion of said down frame, and a rear frame extending rearwardly and obliquely upward from a rear portion of said lower frame; a step floor disposed above said lower frame; a fuel tank disposed rearwardly of said down frame and below said step floor; an engine swingably supported by said body frame behind said fuel tank; a fuel supply passage for supplying fuel in said fuel tank to said engine; a fuel filter for purifying fuel, disposed in an intermediate portion of said fuel supply passage; and a filter support clip formed in a general C-shape and which supports said fuel filter, wherein said fuel filter is disposed between said down frame and said fuel tank, in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle, wherein said lower frame is composed of left and right lower frame portions, wherein a cross pipe extending in a vehicle-width direction is spanned between the left and right lower frame portions at a position forward of said fuel tank, wherein said fuel filter is disposed between said cross pipe and said fuel tank, such that a longitudinal direction of said fuel filter runs along the vehicle-width direction, wherein said fuel filter is disposed such that a lower end of said fuel filter is higher than a lower end of said cross pipe, and wherein said fuel filter is detachably attached to said cross pipe by elastically deforming said filter support clip.