Patent ID: 7740038

Claim:
A pneumatic tire for a motorcycle comprising: a tread having an external surface to form a tread surface, a pair of sidewalls extended almost inward in a radial direction from an end of the tread, a pair of beads extended almost inward in the radial direction from the sidewalls, a carcass laid between both of the beads inside along the tread and the sidewalls, and a belt provided on the carcass at an inside position in the radial direction of the tread, wherein the belt includes a belt ply, the belt ply is formed by a ribbon wound spirally in a circumferential direction of the tire, the ribbon has a belt cord, an absolute value of an angle formed by the belt cord with respect to an equator plane is equal to or smaller than 5 degrees, the carcass includes a first carcass ply and a second carcass ply provided outside in the radial direction of the first carcass ply, the first carcass ply is constituted by a first carcass cord and a topping rubber, an absolute value of an angle formed by the first carcass cord with respect to the circumferential direction is equal to or greater than 60 degrees and is equal to or smaller than 90 degrees, the second carcass ply is constituted by a second carcass cord and a topping rubber, an absolute value of an angle formed by the second carcass cord with respect to the circumferential direction is equal to or greater than 60 degrees and is equal to or smaller than 90 degrees, the first carcass ply is turned up around the bead, the first carcass ply includes a turned-up portion extended almost outward in the radial direction and a turned-up end positioned outside in the radial direction of the turned-up portion, the second carcass ply includes an inner end positioned radially below the turned-up end of the first carcass ply and axially outside the first carcass ply, but not extending to the bead, if a point placed on the tread surface and having a circumferential length from the tread end which is a quarter of a half of a circumferential length of the tread surface is represented by PA, a middle point of a straight line connecting the tread end and a heel of the bead is represented by PB, a point on an external surface of the tire which corresponds to the turned-up end is represented by P 1 and a point on the external surface of the tire which corresponds to an inner end is represented by P 2 , the point P 1 is positioned inside in the radial direction from the point PA, the point P 2 is positioned outside in the radial direction from the point PB, the point P 1 is positioned outside in a radial direction from the end of the tread, and a circumferential length from the tread end to the point P 1 is represented by L 1 whereby a ratio of the circumferential length L 1 to half the circumferential length of the tread is equal to or greater than 0.05.