Patent ID: 9522572
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: B60C

Claim Text:
1. A motorcycle tire that includes, as a frame, a carcass made up of one or more radial carcass plies toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions, and includes, on an outer circumferential side of a crown region of the carcass, a belt layer made up of a plurality of rubber-coated cords, a single auxiliary belt layer made up of a plurality of rubber-coated cords, and a tread rubber in the stated order, a periphery width of the auxiliary belt layer being greater than a periphery width of the belt layer, wherein the cords of the auxiliary belt layer extend in a direction in which an inclination angle of the cords of the auxiliary belt layer with respect to a tire circumferential direction gradually decreases from each of both ends of a tire equatorial region including a tire equatorial plane toward a corresponding ¼ position which is at a distance of ¼ of the periphery width of the auxiliary belt layer from the tire equatorial plane along a periphery of the auxiliary belt layer, and the inclination angle in the ¼ position is 60° or more and 85° or less, and the inclination angle of the cords of the auxiliary belt layer in an end of the auxiliary belt layer is 70° or more and 85° or less.