Patent ID: 7963359

Claim:
A swing arm suspension for a vehicle, in which one end of a shock absorber is attached to a swing arm and the other end of the shock absorber is attached to a vehicle body side via a link mechanism, comprising: a bracket provided on the swing arm, said shock absorber being connected to the bracket via a spherical joint, said bracket including two end faces wherein one of the end faces of the bracket is provided on one of each side of one end of the shock absorber via a gap located between each side of the one end of the shock absorber and an associated end face of the bracket, such that a size of the end faces in the back-and-forth direction of a vehicle body is greater than a vehicle-widthwise distance between the end faces, wherein a reservoir tank is disposed at an upper end of the shock absorber so as to extend toward a rear of the vehicle body and an upper surface of the swing arm is provided with a recessed portion so as to avoid interference with the reservoir tank.