Patent ID: 7950491

Claim:
A saddle-ride type four-wheeled vehicle, comprising: a body frame; front wheels located on right and left sides of the body frame; upper arms arranged to extend from the body frame outward in a vehicle width direction and to support the front wheels, each of the upper arms including a front rod and a rear rod arranged to extend outward in the vehicle width direction from positions separated from each other in a front-rear direction; and shock absorbers including upper ends supported by the body frame, and middle portions located between the front rods and the rear rods; wherein the body frame includes: a lower frame extending below an engine from between the right and left front wheels to the rear of the vehicle; and a front frame made of aluminum or aluminum alloy, situated between the right and left front wheels, and located above the lower frame, the front frame including: pairs of arm-supporting portions spaced away from each other in the front-rear direction and arranged to support the front rods and the rear rods; and shock-absorber-supporting portions located above the respective arm-supporting portions and arranged to support the upper ends of the shock absorbers; wherein the front frame includes, at a forefront of the front frame, an extending portion arranged to extend obliquely upward and rearward from a lower end of the extending portion connected to the lower frame; and front arm-supporting portions of the arm-supporting portions and the shock-absorber-supporting portions provided in the extending portion.