Patent 7370902 was granted and assigned to Honda on May, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A cowling structure of a motorcycle having a radiator behind a front wheel, including a cowling which covers a periphery of the radiator from a front side of a handlebar, wherein an opening which extends in the longitudinal direction of the motorcycle is formed in the cowling such that the opening traverses an upper portion of the radiator in a side view, thus allowing air to pass through the opening and thus through the motorcycle in the lateral direction thereof.