A tire having a pair of high strength sidewalls lying opposite one another, wherein each sidewall has a plurality of plies that are shaped during manufacture to have a series of pleats or corrugations formed therein and stretching from the tire beads radially outward along the sidewalls. Each of the series of sidewall corrugations includes a pattern of alternating inwardly extending depressions and outwardly extending projections that extend continuously around the tire. The corrugations provide the sidewalls with an integral structural reinforcement, whereby the tire is advantageously capable of providing run flat support and avoiding damage to the rim on which the tire is mounted. According to a preferred embodiment, the tire herein disclosed is ideally suited for use on a motorcycle rim.

The tire maximum width in the reference condition is the center value or more and the upper limit or less of the tire maximum width specified in the standard, and the tire maximum width position in the reference condition is located at the position, with a distance of more than 50% of the tire cross-sectional height, outward in the tire radial direction from the bead baseline.

A tire includes: a tread portion including a tread surface; a pair of sidewall portions that extend inward in a tire radial direction from both sides of the tread portion in a tire width direction; and a pair of bead portions each of which includes a bead core that is elongated continuously to an inside of the sidewall portion in the tire radial direction and extends continuously in an annular shape in a tire circumferential direction, and a bead filler disposed adjacent to the bead core and outside the bead core in the tire radial direction. A density of the reinforcing cords changes in a range from 20% inclusive to 60% inclusive of a tire sectional height from a tire inner end in the tire radial direction, and such that an outside of an area, in which the density changes, has a low density of the reinforcing cords.

A pneumatic tire mountable on a 15 tapered specified rim includes a bead core, a carcass, a steel cord reinforcing layer, a bead rubber layer, and a first reinforcing rubber layer. A distance from a second line segment to a third line segment is from 4 mm to 12 mm, a complex modulus of the first reinforcing rubber layer is from 6 MPa to 10 MPa, an elongation at break of the first reinforcing rubber layer is from 300% to 450%, a complex modulus of the second reinforcing rubber layer is from 10 MPa to 15 MPa, and a complex modulus of a shock absorbing rubber layer is from 2 MPa to 6 MPa.

A run flat tire 1 comprises a carcass 6 formed of a carcass ply 6A extending between a pair of bead portions 4 in a toroidal manner and a side reinforcing rubber layer 9 having a substantially crescent cross-sectional shape disposed on an inner side of the carcass at each of sidewall portions. steel cords 60 each including 1 to 4 filaments 61 having a strand diameter in a range of from 0.25 to 0.30 mm are arranged in the carcass ply 6A, and an outer diameter D of each of the steel cords 60 is not less than 0.62 mm.

A run-flat tire having a tread, an inner liner disposed beneath the tread, a body ply, and a pair of sidewalls axially spaced apart from one another is disclosed. The run-flat tire further includes a pair of sidewall-reinforcing portions each disposed in respective sidewall regions and each having a fabric barrier; a first sidewall-reinforcing insert between the fabric barrier and the inner liner; and a second sidewall-reinforcing insert disposed between the fabric barrier and the body ply. The fabric barrier extends not more than an entire length of the sidewall-reinforcing portion.

In a side reinforcing type tire 2, when a cross-sectional height of the tire 2 is denoted by L, a height in a radial direction from a bead base line to an outer edge of a core 34 is denoted by HC, a point on a turned-up portion 42 of a carcass ply 38 at which point a height in the radial direction from the bead base line is 0.35 times of the height L is denoted by P1, and a point on the turned-up portion 42 at which point the height in the radial direction from the bead base line is equal to the height HC is denoted by P2, the turned-up portion 42 has, between the point P1 and the point P2, a shape that is a curved line projecting inward in an axial direction, a straight line, or a combination thereof.

A run flat radial tire having a tire cross-section height of 115 mm or greater includes a carcass spanning between a pair of bead portions, a side reinforcing rubber layer that is provided to a tire side portion and that extends in a tire radial direction along an inner face of the carcass, and at least one inclined belt layer provided at a tire radial direction outside of the carcass and includes cord extending in a direction inclined to a tire circumferential direction. At least at one end portion side in the tire axial direction of a maximum width inclined belt layer having the largest width in the tire axial direction, the maximum width inclined belt layer and the side reinforcing rubber layer have an overlap width in the tire axial direction of 15% or greater of the tire axial direction width of the maximum width inclined belt layer.

The tire maximum width in the reference condition is the center value or more and the upper limit or less of the tire maximum width specified in the standard, and the tire maximum width position in the reference condition is located at the position, with a distance of more than 50% of the tire cross-sectional height, outward in the tire radial direction from the bead baseline.