A pneumatic vehicle tire has a carcass, a belt and a profiled tread. The belt includes four belt plies wherein the third belt ply and the fourth belt ply are working plies. The reinforcement members of the working plies are arranged at an angle to the circumferential direction of 10 to 45 and the reinforcement members of the fourth belt ply at an angle of 10 to 45. The reinforcement members of the third and fourth belt plies are arranged such that they cross one another. The reinforcement members of the first belt ply are arranged at an angle of 40 to 75 and the reinforcement members of the second belt ply are arranged at an angle of 0 to 5 to the circumferential direction. The reinforcement members of the third belt ply and the reinforcement members of the first belt ply have the same direction of inclination.

Motorcycles tyre including a carcass structure, a zero-degree belt structure arranged in a radially outer position with respect to the carcass structure and a tread band arranged in a radially outer position with respect to the belt structure. The belt structure includes at least one hybrid reinforcing cord that has an elongation greater than 4% when subjected to a load equal to about 50 N and a tangent modulus with a monotonic progression as the elongation increases for elongations comprised between 4% and at least 9%.

Provided is a tire that has excellent high-speed durability even though a resin material is used therein. The tire includes a tire frame (10) having an annular shape, a reinforcement layer (20) located outward of the tire frame (10) in a tire radial direction, and tread rubber (30) located outward of the reinforcement layer (20) in the tire radial direction. The reinforcement layer (20) includes a reinforcement member (21) that is coated with a resin composition containing from 50 mass % to 100 mass % of a resin material. The tread rubber (30) has a loss tangent (tan .sub.60 C.) during 1% strain at 60 C. and a storage modulus (E.sub.30 C. (MPa)) during 1% strain at 30 C. that satisfy a relationship in a formula: 27.5tan .sub.60 C.+1.125E.sub.30 C.27.5tan .sub.60 C.+11.25.

A two-wheeled vehicle tyre includes a tread portion including a tread rubber. The tread rubber includes a cap rubber forming a tread surface and a base rubber disposed radially inwardly of the cap rubber. 300% modulus (M300c) of the cap rubber is greater than 300% modulus (M300b) of the base rubber. Loss tangent (tan c) of the cap rubber is smaller than loss tangent (tan b) of the base rubber. The tread surface includes a crown region centered on a tyre equator and a pair of shoulder regions located axially outwardly of the crown region, and a thickness of the cap rubber in the crown region is greater than a thickness of the cap rubber in each of the shoulder regions.

A two-wheeled vehicle tyre includes a tread portion being provided with a belt layer and a tread rubber disposed radially outwardly of the belt layer. The belt layer includes steel cords oriented along a tyre circumferential direction. The tread rubber includes a cap rubber forming a tread surface and a base rubber disposed radially inwardly of the cap rubber, wherein 300% modulus (M300c) of the cap rubber is greater than 300% modulus (M300b) of the base rubber, and loss tangent (tan c) of the cap rubber is smaller than loss tangent (tan b) of the base rubber.

A method for forming a composite tread, the method comprising the steps of forming a coextruded strip of a first compound and a second compound, wherein the first compound is a tread compound, and the second compound is formed from a high-wear compound, wherein the tread is formed from winding the coextruded strip onto the tire building drum while varying the ratio of the first compound to the second compound.

A tyre for vehicle wheels comprises at least one structural component including a plurality of textile reinforcing cords (10), at least some of which comprise at least two yarns (20a, 20b) twisted together. At least one of said yarns (20a, 20b) is a texturized yarn (210) comprising a plurality of first filaments (201a) made of a recycled plastic material mixed with a plurality of second filaments (202a) made of a non-recycled plastic material.

A pneumatic tire may include: a carcass; a belt reinforcing structure comprising a plurality of belt layers that include at least one spiral belt layer and at least one zigzag belt layer; and a tread comprising two or more main grooves extending circumferentially continuously around the pneumatic tire and defining a plurality of ribs that include two axially outermost ribs. At 10% to 100% of rated pressure and no load, each of the two axially outermost ribs may be raised (e.g., by a gap of 1 mm to 7 mm) in relation to a respective next nearest rib located axially inward of the respective axially outermost rib.

The present invention relates to a novel tire cord fabric or strip made of alternating parallel polyester (PET) cords having different twists. Such novel tire cord fabric or strips improve high speed durability, tread separation resistance and impact resistance when used as zero degree spirally wound cap ply in pneumatic radial tires.

The present invention relates to a novel polyester tire cord reinforcement which has bi-elastic tensile properties. The tire cord includes at least two cord plies, and there is a spacing between the cord plies. Such a novel bi-elastic polyester tire cord improves high speed durability and significantly eliminates flatspotting when used as a cap ply in pneumatic radial tires.