A heavy duty pneumatic tire in which occurrence of uneven wear is inhibited is provided. In the tire, each shoulder land portion includes a groove wall portion forming a wall of a shoulder circumferential groove, and a cap portion located outward of the groove wall portion in an axial direction. A wear resistance index of the groove wall portion is lower than a wear resistance index of the cap portion. A ratio of a distance in the axial direction from an outer edge of the shoulder circumferential groove to a boundary between the groove wall portion and the cap portion on an outer surface of the shoulder land portion, to a width in the axial direction of the shoulder land portion, is not less than 20% and not greater than 30%.

A motorcycle tire comprises a tread reinforcement including a jointless band ply. The jointless band ply has a developed width Wa of not more than 65% of the developed tread width TWe. The tread portion has a tread profile comprising a crown arc portion having a radius R1 of curvature and a pair of shoulder arc portions having a radius R2 of curvature. The radius R1 is smaller than the radius R2 and smaller than 50% of the maximum tire cross-section width Wt. In a normal state of the tire, the axial ends of the crown arc portion are respectively positioned axially inward of the outer edges of the jointless band ply.

A tire includes a circumferential tread, a pair of beads, and a pair of sidewalls. The tire further includes a plurality of circumferential belts disposed below the circumferential tread and extending in an axial direction. The plurality of circumferential belts include a lower belt and an upper belt. The tire also includes at least one gum strip. The at least one gum strip has a first portion in contact with a top surface of the lower belt and a bottom surface of the upper belt. The at least one gum strip has a second portion disposed below the lower belt.

A radial tire includes a pair of bead cores, a carcass layer having one or more carcass plies extending from one of the bead cores to another of the bead cores, a tread portion circumferentially encircling the toroidal form of the carcass layer, and a belt structure. The belt structure includes a radially innermost main belt layer, a first, unreinforced cushion layer disposed on a radially outer side of the main belt layer, a second, unreinforced cushion layer disposed on a radially outer side of the first cushion layer, and a protective belt layer disposed between a radially outer side of the second cushion layer and a radially inner side of the tread portion. A radially outermost layer of the main belt layer has reinforcement cords with a specified diameter. The first cushion layer has a radial thickness between 0.5 and 4.0 times the specified diameter.

A pneumatic tire includes a carcass layer, a belt layer disposed outward of the carcass layer, a tread rubber disposed outward of the belt layer in a tire radial direction, sidewall rubbers disposed outward of the carcass layer in a tire width direction, and protectors disposed in regions from tire ground contact edges to maximum tire width positions and protruding from tire profiles. The protectors have a rubber hardness Hs_p in a range of 50Hs_p60, an elongation at break Eb_p in a range of 500%Eb_p700%, and an elastic modulus E_p in a range of 3.4 MPaE_p7.0 MPa.

Provided is a technology with which, in a tire including a spiral cord layer in a crown portion, the occurrence of separation at a tire width-direction end of the spiral cord layer can be inhibited. A tire (10) includes: a carcass (14), which toroidally extends between a pair of bead portions; and a spiral cord layer (1), which is arranged on a tire radial-direction outer side of the carcass in a crown portion and in which an upper layer (1A) and a lower layer (1B) are formed by spirally winding reinforcing cords. In this tire (10), the reinforcing cords of the spiral cord layer have an angle in a range of 10 to 45 with respect to a tire circumferential direction, a belt under-cushion rubber (18) is arranged on a tire radial-direction inner side of a tire width-direction end of the spiral cord layer, and the belt under-cushion rubber has a 100% modulus in a range of 1 to 6 MPa.

The pneumatic tire according to the disclosure includes a resin-coated belt comprising a wire coated with a coating resin. A base ring is formed at a tire radial inside of the resin-coated belt, while being in contact with a tire widthwise outer end of the resin-coated belt. A concavo-convex portion is formed on at least one of surfaces of the base ring.

A pneumatic tire of the present disclosure comprises a resin-coated belt, a base ring that comes in contact with a tire widthwise outer end of the resin-coated belt is provided on a tire radial inside of the resin-coated belt, the base ring has a tire widthwise outer end located on an outer side of the tire widthwise outer end of the resin-coated belt in a tire width direction, and comprises an auxiliary belt that covers a tire radial outside of the base ring in a tire widthwise region from the tire widthwise outer end of the resin-coated belt to at least a part of a tire widthwise outside, and that covers a tire radial outside of the resin-coated belt in a tire widthwise region from the tire widthwise outer end of the resin-coated belt to at least a part of a tire widthwise inside.

A metal-resin composite member for a tire, comprising plural metal cords that are positioned alongside each other, an adhesive layer that is disposed on the metal cords, and a resin layer that is disposed on the adhesive layer, the metal-resin composite member satisfying at least one of the following (1) or (2): (1) the adhesive layer is independently disposed on each of the plural metal cords, and at least one of the adhesive layers has a cross-sectional shape that has a projecting portion; (2) the adhesive layer is integrally disposed on all of the plural metal cords, and a region consisting of the metal cords and the adhesive layer has a cross-sectional shape that has, between the metal cords, a portion that is narrower in width than a portion at which the metal cords are disposed.

Tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers each formed of reinforcing elements inserted between two skim layers of rubber compound. First layer S of polymer compound is in contact with a working crown layer and the carcass reinforcement. The crown reinforcement comprises a layer of circumferential reinforcing elements. The elastic modulus under tension at 10% elongation of a skim layer of a working crown layer is less than 8.5 MPa, the maximum value of tan() of the skim layer of a working crown layer is <0.100. First layer S comprises a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z65 and a maximum tan() value <0.100 and its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60 C. on the return cycle is >1.35 MPa.