Patent ID: 7422081

Claim:
In combination with a radiator cover for a fluid cooled motorcycle engine, such radiator cover having a front end and a pair of air intake apertures formed therewithin, and a pair of bezel frames each fastened to such radiator cover adjacent a respective one of such pair of air intake apertures, each bezel frame having an aperture exposing such respective air intake aperture, an improvement comprising a pair of grille means for enabling air flow and for preventing entry of a detrimental extraneous foreign material into such radiator cover, such detrimental extraneous foreign material being present in an operating environment of such motorcycle, each grille means comprising: (a) a generally planar unitary elongated member caged during installation between an exterior surface portion of said front end of said radiator cover and an interior surface portion of a respective bezel frame, said elongated member having each of a predetermined size and a predetermined thickness; (b) a paper-thin like peripheral edge formed on said unitary member, said peripheral edge having a first surface thereof directly abutting said exterior surface portion of said front end of said radiator cover and having an opposed second surface thereof directly abutting said interior surface portion of said respective bezel frame, wherein a thickness of said peripheral edge is smaller than said predetermined thickness of said unitary member; and (c) a plurality of apertures formed in said unitary member, said plurality of apertures enabling said air flow and preventing said entry of said detrimental extraneous foreign material into said radiator cover.