Patent ID: 6609551
Filing Date: 2003-08-26
Classification: B60C,Y10T

Abstract:
A motorcycle tire comprising a highly convex tread joined by two sidewalls of low height to two beads, each bead being reinforced by an inextensible annular element around which is anchored a carcass reinforcement formed of textile reinforcement elements forming with the circumferential direction an angle of between 70Â° and 90Â°, said carcass reinforcement being radially surmounted by a crown reinforcement formed of at least one ply of circumferential reinforcement elements and of two plies of reinforcement elements of textile material which are crossed from one ply to the next, wherein one of the plies of crossed reinforcement elements is a radially outermost ply of the crown reinforcement, the at least one ply of circumferential reinforcement elements being located radially between the carcass reinforcement and the two plies of crossed reinforcement elements) wherein said crossed reinforcement elements form with the circumferential direction angles of between 65Â° and 85Â°.