Patent ID: 8033310

Claim:
A pneumatic tire comprising, on a tread face of the tire, a shoulder land portion extending in a circumferential direction of the tire, and a thin groove extending in the circumferential direction of the tire adjacent to a ground contact end of the shoulder land portion and segmenting the shoulder land portion into a main land portion located at the inner side thereof as viewed in the width direction of the tire and a sacrifice land portion located at the outer side thereof as viewed in the width direction of the tire, wherein the thin groove includes an enlarged portion extending in the circumferential direction of the tire in which a groove width thereof at groove bottom is enlarged toward the sacrifice land portion side only, and the sacrifice land portion includes a protruding portion that protrudes toward the groove bottom side along the thin groove located at the sacrifice land portion side and extends in the circumferential direction of the tire, and the protruding portion has a front end portion having a circular shape in section, and when defining a maximum groove width of the enlarged portion as W and a maximum width of the protruding portion as W1, the relationship therebetween is 0.25≦W1/W≦0.65.