Patent ID: 7104585

Claim:
A structure of mounting of a front part in a two-wheeled motor vehicle comprising a front fork including a pair of fork legs each of which is formed telescopically to have a cylindrical lower case for pivotally supporting a front wheel at a lower end thereof and a cylindrical upper case fitted into said lower case, said fork legs being disposed on opposite sides of the front wheel, a top bridge for connecting upper portions of said pair of upper cases to each other, and a bottom bridge for connecting said upper cases to each other below said top bridge, said front fork being steerably supported by a head pipe at a front end of a vehicle body frame assembly; and a steering handlebar connected to an upper end of said front fork, characterized in that part-mounting fixtures for supporting the front part disposed in front of said steering handlebar are detachably mounted to the upper cases of said front fork, wherein each of said part-mounting fixtures comprises a first embracing member having an engaged portion provided at one of opposite ends thereof, and a second embracing member which is provided at one of opposite ends thereof with an engaging portion that disengageably engages with said engaged portion of the first embracing member for surrounding and clamping each of said upper cases, said second embracing member being operatively connected at the other end thereof with the other end of said first embracing member such that said second embracing member is rotatable relative to said first embracing member around a rotating axis parallel to an axis of said upper case when said engaging portion of the second embracing member is disengaged from said engaged portion of the first embracing member, wherein said first embracing member is formed into such a shape that said first embracing member abuts against a portion of an outer periphery of the upper case and said part-mounting fixture further comprises an operating lever connected at a base end thereof to the other end of the first embracing member for turning movement about an axis parallel to said rotating axis, an intermediate lever connected at one end to an intermediate portion of the operating lever for turning movement about an axis parallel to the turning axis for the operating lever, and said other end of the second embracing member is connected to the other end of said intermediate lever for turning movement about said rotating axis, and said first embracing member is provided with a lever-retaining member which is resiliently engaged with said operating lever to retain the turned position of said operating lever, when said operating lever has been turned to a position in which the second embracing member having the engaging portion engaging with the engaged portion embraces the upper case by cooperation with the first embracing member, and a mounting boss for mounting said front part.