Patent ID: 7213627

Claim:
A tire for a motorcycle comprising: a first carcass ply formed along a tread surface and provided with a fold-back portion by winding upon a pair of bead cores disposed opposite to each other in an axial direction of the tire from an inside toward an outside in the axial direction of the tire; a second carcass ply formed along the tread surface and provided on an outside of the first carcass ply in a radial direction of the tire, said second carcass ply not winding upon the bead cores; and a band ply formed along the tread surface and provided on an outside of the second carcass ply in the radial direction of the tire, wherein each of the first and second carcass plies has a carcass cord provided to cross a tire equator plane at an angle having an absolute value of 65 to 90 degrees, the band ply has a band cord which crosses the tire equator plane at an angle having an absolute value of 10 degrees or less and is wound spirally, and the band ply is provided in such a manner that a width is set to be 80% to 98% of a tread width and an overlap dimension with the fold-back portion of the first carcass ply is set to be 15% to 35% of the width of the band ply.