Motor vehicles – Special wheel base – Having only three wheels
Patent
1983-12-09
1986-06-24
Mitchell, David M.
Motor vehicles
Special wheel base
Having only three wheels
180 8917, 180225, 280 5A, 280281B, 2801521, 297193, 297243, B62J 104, B62K 502
Patent
active
045963010
ABSTRACT:
A tricycle having at least one front wheel and a front fork carrying the front wheel, fuel and oil tanks positioned at the rear of the front fork, comprising at least one longitudinal frame elongated in a longitudinal direction of the tricycle and securely connected at its foremost end to the front fork structure, the fuel and oil tanks being supported on a front portion of the frame, and a rear fender structure having a front tank cover portion and at least one rear fender portion which merges rearwardly out of the front tank assembly cover portion and which is pivotally connected to the frame in the neighborhood of the rear end of the frame so that the rear fender structure as a whole is pivotally movable between a lower angular position resting on the frame and having the fuel and oil tank assemblies enclosed within the tank cover portion and an upper angular position raised above the frame and the tanks.
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Hill M. J.
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Mitchell David M.
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