Motorcycle having a front wheel suspension
View Patent ↗A motorcycle having a forked front wheel support with two rigid fork arms on which a front wheel of the motorcycle is mounted, an upper trailing link provided for supporting wheel support forces connected via an upper joint to an upper area of the wheel support, and lower trailing link provided for supporting wheel support forces situated below the upper trailing link and connected via a lower joint to the lower trailing link, in which at least one of the two joints is elastically connected to its respective upper or lower trailing link and/or to the wheel support.
1. A motorcycle having a front wheel guide, comprising:
a forked wheel support having two rigid fork arms on which a front wheel of the motorcycle is mounted;
an upper trailing link provided for supporting wheel support forces, the upper trailing link having a front end viewed in a travel direction of the motorcycle and being connected via an upper joint to an upper area of the wheel support; and
a lower trailing link provided for supporting wheel support forces, the lower trailing link being located below the upper trailing link, having a front end viewed in the travel direction of the motorcycle connected via a lower joint to a lower area of the wheel support,
wherein at least one of the upper and lower joints is elastically connected to at least one of the respective upper trailing link, lower trailing link and the wheel support.
2. The motorcycle according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the upper and lower joints is a ball-and-socket joint having a joint pin and a joint ball connected thereto, said joint ball being inserted into a joint socket.
3. The motorcycle according to claim 2 , wherein the ball-and-socket joint is elastically connected to at least one of its respective trailing link and to the wheel support on at least one of a joint pin side and a joint socket side.
4. The motorcycle according to claim 2 , wherein at least one of the joint pin and the joint socket is inserted or screwed into a joint receptacle, the joint receptacle being elastically connected to its respective trailing link via at least one spring element.
5. The motorcycle according to claim 4 , wherein the at least one spring element is elastic in a first direction perpendicular to the joint pin and corresponding essentially to the travel direction of the motorcycle, and is essentially inelastic in directions which are perpendicular to the first direction.
6. The motorcycle according to claim 5 , wherein the respective trailing link has two trailing link arms, and the joint receptacle is situated centrally between ends of the two trailing arms.
7. The motorcycle according to claim 5 , wherein the joint receptacle is connected via spring plates to the end of the trailing link arms.
8. The motorcycle according to claim 6 , wherein the joint receptacle is connected via a first spring plate to the end of one of the two trailing link arms and via a second spring plate to the end of the other of the two trailing link arms.
9. The motorcycle according to claim 8 , wherein a plane defined by the spring plates is essentially perpendicular to the ends of the two trailing link arms.
10. The motorcycle according to claim 9 , wherein the joint receptacle is inserted into an annular opening of the respective trailing link in the area of the ends of the trailing link arms, an elastomeric element being inserted into a ring gap formed by an external circumference of the joint receptacle and the annular opening.