Motor vehicles – Special wheel base – Having only two wheels
Patent
1986-09-02
1988-03-01
Love, John J.
Motor vehicles
Special wheel base
Having only two wheels
180291, 180297, 180312, B62K 1104
Patent
active
047279524
ABSTRACT:
A body structure for a motorcycle with a front wheel and a rear wheel, including a body frame assembly having an engine mounted thereon and having vertically swingably joined thereto a front leading arm for supporting the front wheel and a rear trailing arm for supporting the rear wheel. The front leading arm as viewed from the side thereof is curved upwardly in the direction of a steering axis of the front wheel. The body frame assembly is shaped in a concave form having front standing portions and rear standing portions to thereby surround the engine. The engine is a V-type with at least a pair of internal combustion cylinders substantially vertically arranged to be respectively forwardly and rearwardly inclined, and may be secured at a front part thereof to the front standing portions of the body frame assembly and at a rear part thereof to the rear standing portions of the body frame assembly. A shock absorber cooperation with the front leading arm and another shock absorber cooperating with the rear trailing arm are arranged under the body frame assembly which has the engine mounted thereon, to be oriented forwardly and rearwardly, respectively.
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patent: 1198669 (1916-09-01), Schwinn
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patent: 4347909 (1982-09-01), Takemura
patent: 4436172 (1984-03-01), Inoue
World PCT Publication #243, dated May 1979.
Kishi Toshiaki
Morioka Minoru
Yoshioka Toshiharu
Blackman William D.
Carrier Joseph P.
Diederiks, Jr. Everett G.
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Love John J.
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