A tire includes a tread having a crown main groove and shoulder main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction. The crown groove has crown long side portions and crown short side portions inclined in the opposite directions and alternately formed in a zigzag shape extending in the tire circumferential direction, the shoulder main grooves have shoulder long side portions and shoulder short side portions inclined in the opposite directions and alternately formed in a zigzag shape extending in the tire circumferential direction, the crown main groove and shoulder main grooves are formed such that a crown long-short ratio La/Lb is larger than a shoulder long-short ratio Lc/Ld, where La is a length of each crown long side portion, Lb is a length of each crown short side portion, Lc is a length of each shoulder long side portion, and Ld is a length of each shoulder short side portion.

A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion 2 having an outside tread edge Teo and an inside tread edge Tei to be positioned outside and inside, respectively, with respect to a vehicle. The tread portion 2 is axially divided into land regions 4 by four main grooves 3 including an outside shoulder main groove 5, an inside shoulder main groove 6 and two crown main grooves 7. The outside shoulder main groove 5 has a width smaller than the inside shoulder main groove 6 and the crown main grooves 7. The land portions 4 include an inside shoulder land region 10 provided with inside shoulder lateral grooves 17. Each of the land regions 4 is provided with sipes 20 each extending across the entire width of the land region and having a width less than 3 mm.

A pneumatic tire includes, on a tread surface, a plurality of circumferential main grooves extending in the tread circumferential direction, and a plurality of land portions defined by circumferential main grooves adjacent in the tread width direction among the plurality of circumferential main grooves, or by the circumferential main grooves and tread edges. A widthwise groove (widthwise sipe) (circumferential sipe) includes a widened portion, on the groove bottom side (sipe bottom side), at which the groove width (sipe width) is larger than on the tread surface side. In a tire radial direction region including at least a reference depth position, the storage modulus of first tread rubber, which is a groove wall surface layer defined by the widened portion and covering at least part of the widened portion, is larger than the storage modulus of second tread rubber located in a region around the first tread rubber.

This disclosure aims to provide a tire having excellent braking performance on dry road surface and on wet road surface, and having excellent steering stability. This disclosure is a tire comprising a tread 10, wherein: the tread 10 has a plurality of circumferential grooves extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction C, the circumferential grooves including circumferential main grooves 21a, 21b, 22 with a cross-sectional area in a tire width direction W of 10 mm.sup.2 or more, and a groove width Lb at a 95% groove depth position with a groove depth of a groove bottom as 100% of at least the circumferential groove 21a located on an outermost side when mounted to a vehicle among the circumferential main grooves 21a, 21b, 22 being 25% to 60% with respect to a groove width Lt on a tread surface.

A tire comprises a tread portion whose position when mounted on a vehicle is specified. The tread portion includes an inner crown land region defined between a crown main groove and an inner shoulder main groove. The inner crown land region includes crown lateral grooves, first inner crown sipes, second inner crown sipes each extending from the inner shoulder main groove toward the crown main groove and having an inner end terminating within the inner crown land region, and third inner crown sipes each extending from the crown main groove toward the inner shoulder main groove and having an outer end terminating within the inner crown land region. The crown lateral grooves each have a length in a tire axial direction larger than that of each of the second inner crown sipes.

A tire has a tread portion comprising a first land region divided by a circumferential groove extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction. The first land region is provided with first lateral grooves extending thereacross to circumferentially divide the first land region into blocks. The blocks include a first block provided with a second lateral groove and sipes. The second lateral groove has two end portions which are inclined with respect to the tire axial direction to a first direction toward one side in the tire axial direction, and a central portion between the two end portions which is inclined with respect to the tire axial direction to a second direction opposite to the first direction toward the above-said one side in the tire axial direction.

Tread (10) for a tire of an off-road vehicle. Total width Wt of the tread is greater than 600 mm and has at least three circumferential main grooves (1, 2, 3, 4) at least 60 mm deep that divide the tread into intermediate ribs (51, 52, 53) and edge ribs (8). The edge ribs have a width≤0.25 Wt. At least one of the intermediate ribs (51, 52, 53) has fine grooves (61, 62, 63) of depth H1 delimiting blades of material (71, 72, 73) of mean width B1<2H1. Grooves (61, 62, 63) are oriented in the axial direction of the tire. Each intermediate rib (51, 52, 53) has a mean width≤0.25 Wt and ≥0.75 Ht (thickness of material to be worn away). Grooves, (61, 62, 63) have, over a height H12 at least equal to 65% of H1, a width≤ to the value obtained from 0.04√{square root over (B1.Math.H1)}.

A passenger vehicle tire having rolling resistance without negatively affecting the grip and behaviour. The tread (2) has a radial height H.sub.S between 5 mm and 8 mm, a volumetric void ratio T.sub.EV between 22% and 30%, a total volume V.sub.CP of the main voids (241) at least equal to 80% of the total volume V.sub.C of the voids (24), and comprises an elastomeric compound having a glass transition temperature T.sub.g between 22° C. and 5° C., a Shore A hardness between 45 and 65, and a dynamic loss tgδ at 23° C. at least equal to 0.13 and at most equal to 0.39. The metal reinforcers of the working layers (41, 42) are steel monofilaments having a cross section S with a smallest dimension Dmin between 0.20 mm and 0.50 mm. The monofilaments distributed at a density d.sub.T between 100 threads/dm 200 threads/dm, each working layer (41, 42) having a mean radial thickness E.sub.T between D+0.1 mm and D+0.6 mm.

A pneumatic tire includes two circumferential main grooves disposed in an inner half of a tread developed width in a tire lateral direction; shoulder lug grooves that divide shoulder land portions into shoulder block portions and that each include a see-through portion in the tire lateral direction; and center lug grooves that divide a center land portion into a plurality of center block portions. The center lug grooves each include: two end groove portions opening to the innermost circumferential main grooves and one center groove portion that extends between the end groove portions, has at least a part disposed on a tire equator line, and has an angle θ.sub.1 with respect to the tire equator line satisfying −45°≤θ.sub.1≤+15°.

A tire includes a tread portion including first and second tread edges, circumferential grooves, and land portions. The land portions include a crown land portion, a first middle land portion, and a second middle land portion. Under a 50% loaded condition, the first middle land portion, the crown land portion, and the second middle land portion respectively have axial widths W1m, Wc, and W2m of ground contact surfaces, the widths satisfying the following formula, W1m>Wc>W2m. The crown land portion includes an outer ground contact surface and an inner ground contact surface. The outer ground contact surface and the inner ground contact surface respectively have widths Wco and Wci in the tire axial direction, the widths satisfying the following formula, Wco>Wci.