Japanese patent drawings from the Japanese Patent Office have revealed Honda’s plans to develop a leaning three-wheeler motorcycle, jumping on a trend that Piaggio began in 2006 with the MP3 scooter. Since the MP3’s arrival, other bookmakers have introduced similar models, including the Peugeot Metropolis, and most recently, the Yamaha Tricity.
Now it looks like Honda’s jumping on the bandwagon with a series of patent drawings showing a leaning trike with one rear wheel and a pair of front wheels. From what I’ve gathered, the Japanese company appears to be leaning towards developing a motorcycle with a design and chassis bearing a striking similarity to the Honda NC700S. It wouldn’t be surprising if Honda uses said platform since it’s already done so on a handful of other models, including the NM4 and the CTX700.
The patent drawings also reveal a few unique features of the leaning three-wheeler, particularly the suspension set-up, which makes use of a similar parallelogram suspension design found on the Piaggio and Yamaha trikes. The suspension components are set-up just behind the wheels and apparently uses a trailing link suspension that links in front of the bike’s wheel axis.
It remains to be seen if these patent drawings will ever amount to anything. Patent drawings don’t necessarily equate to given models being sent to the production line. So hold your horses and temper your excitement for now. It’s nice to see that Honda’s got these on file.
Let’s just hope that they don’t keep it on file longer than they should.
Click past the jump to read more about Honda’s patent drawings of a leaning three-wheeled motorcycle.
Honda Eyeing Possibility of Developing Leaning Three-Wheeled Motorcycles originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:00 EST.
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