Patent ID: 7806216

Claim:
A number plate for a vehicle, the vehicle comprising: a front fork suspending a front wheel, the front fork being disposed steerably on a head pipe on a vehicle body side; a steering mechanism including a handlebar disposed on the front fork; and a competition identification number marked on the number plate, the number plate disposed at a front portion of a fork bridge, the fork bridge including a top bridge and a bottom bridge, and the fork bridge connecting left- and right-hand portions of the front fork, wherein a steering damper is directly connected to the head pipe and the bottom bridge; wherein the number plate includes a protruded portion protruding forwardly at a center thereof and narrowing toward a bottom thereof; wherein the number plate has a lower portion covering an area forward of the steering damper; wherein the number plate includes a left and a right flat portion formed respectively on a left and a right lower portion of the protruded portion, and wherein each of the left and right flat portions extends in a direction parallel to a forward edge of the bottom bridge.