Patent ID: 7934527

Claim:
A pneumatic radial tire for motorcycle comprising a tread portion, a pair of side wall portions disposed from both the edges of the tread portion on the inside in a tire radial direction, a bead portion continuous to the inside of the side wall portions in the tire radius direction, a carcass layer composed of at least one carcass ply composed of cords covered with rubber and having an angle of 60 to 90° to a tire equator surface for reinforcing the above respective portions between bead cores embedded in the bead portion, and at least one spiral belt layer composed of steel cords wound spirally substantially in parallel with the tire equator surface on the outside of the carcass layer in the tire radius direction, wherein when the ratio of spacing R 1 between adjacent steel cords of the spiral belt layer is shown by the following expression, R 1=(50− E×ds )/50, the ratio of spacing R 1 is 0.45 or less as well as the total sectional area S of the steel cords applied per 50 mm width of the spiral belt layer is 7.5 mm 2 or less, wherein in the expression, E shows the number of steel cords applied per 50 mm width of the spiral belt layer, and ds shows the diameter in mm of the circumscribed circle of each steel cord, wherein E ranges from 66 to 200 cords.