Provided is a pneumatic tire. A belt cover layer made of an organic fiber cord spirally wound along the tire circumferential direction is provided on the outer circumferential side of a belt layer in a tread portion, and a polyethylene terephthalate fiber cord of which the elastic modulus under a load of 2.0 cN/dtex at 100° C. is in the range of 3.5 cN/(tex.Math.%) to 5.5 cN/(tex.Math.%) is used as the organic fiber cord. The coating rubber covering the organic fiber cord contains one or more of natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, or butadiene rubber as a rubber component. The coating rubber is formed of a rubber composition in which the content of natural rubber in the rubber component is 50 mass % or more, and 5.0 parts by mass to 9.0 parts by mass of zinc oxide is blended per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a carcass extending between the bead portions through the tread portion and the sidewall portions, a belt layer disposed radially outwardly of the carcass, a band layer disposed radially outwardly of the belt layer, and a pair of belt-edge rubbers disposed between the belt layer and the band layer to cover axially outer edges of the belt layer. The band layer includes a full band and a pair of edge bands covering the axially outer edges of the belt layer. The pair of edge bands includes one or more organic fiber cords each having restraining force in a range from 5 to 35 N at radially outward locations of the outer edges of the belt layer.

A tire comprises a tread portion provided with a band composed of at least one band cord wound spirally and circumferentially of the tire and embedded in the tread portion. When a band cord piece is taken out from the above-said at least one band cord embedded in the tread portion and measured for the length, a length Lb is equal to or smaller than a length La at least in a part of the tread portion, where the length Lb is measured at a first point of time after the band cord piece has been taken out, and the length La is measured at a second point of time after the first point of time.

A tire 2 includes a tread 4 on which at least three circumferential grooves 24 continuously extending in a circumferential direction are formed, and a belt 14 located radially inward of the tread 4. A ratio of a center stretch, at a center portion of the belt, indicated by the follow/Mg formula (2) to a shoulder stretch, at an end portion of the belt, indicated by the following formula (1) is not less than 1 and not greater than 3, and the shoulder stretch is not less than 1%.

(Shoulder stretch)

100×(Rsa−Rsb)/Rsb  (1)

(Center stretch)

100×(Rca−Rcb)/Rcb  (2)

A tire includes a pair of annular beads, a body ply extending between the pair of annular beads, and at least three steel belt layers disposed above the body ply and extending axially across a portion of the body ply. The tire further includes at least one reinforcement layer disposed above the at least three steel belt layers, a circumferential tread disposed above the at least one reinforcement layer and extending axially across the tire, and a pair of sidewalls extending between each of the pair of annular beads and a pair of shoulders associated with the circumferential tread.

A cord of a band of a tire has a single-stranded structure in which steel filaments are stranded, and the number of the filaments is not less than three and not greater than six. In a cross-section of the cord, when represents a diameter of a smallest circle that surrounds cross-sections of the filaments, and represents a diameter of each filament, a gap is formed between the filaments such that the diameter is not less than three times the diameter and not greater than six times the diameter in the case of the number of the filaments being three or four. An initial elongation of the cord is not less than 0.1% and not greater than 1.5%.

A tire including a belt having a steel cord belt layer, and a bandage externally bearing radially on the belt. The bandage includes a rubber strip containing reinforcement cord. This rubber strip is wound about the belt at least from one axial belt end up to at least the other axial belt end, the ratio of the axial winding component to the circumferential winding component along the rubber strip is less than 0.01, and, over at least 70% of the axial belt width, does not vary by more than 2%. The spacing of two neighboring cords in two adjacent portions of the wound rubber strip at each circumferential position does not vary by more than 5% compared to the spacing of the cords in the rubber strip. The cords in the bandage are subjected to tension of at least 3 N/mm.sup.2 over at least 25% of the axial belt width.

A tire 2 includes a tread 4, a belt 16, and a band 18. The belt 16 includes belt cords 44. The band 18 includes band cords 60. The band 18 is composed of a band strip 58. The band strip 58 is a cord array in which the band cords 60 are arranged. A zone from a first end to a second end of the belt 16 is a control zone. Residual tension of the band cords 60 in the control zone is not less than 15.0 N. The control zone includes a crown zone and a pair of shoulder zones. Residual tension of the band cords 60 in the crown zone is higher than residual tension of the band cords 60 in each shoulder zone. A shape index of a reference ground-contact surface of the tire 2 is not less than 1.00 and not greater than 1.30.

Pneumatic radial tire comprising a tread (4) forming the outermost layer of the tire (1) and at least one belt (5) on top of the carcass (3) forming the inner layer of the tire (1). As cap ply reinforcement layer (6) hybrid cords are applied comprising polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and nylon 6.6 multifilament yarns to provide a pneumatic radial tire having high speed durability and a low flatspot feature.

A tire including a belt having a steel cord belt layer, and a bandage externally bearing radially on the belt. The bandage includes a rubber strip containing reinforcement cord. This rubber strip is wound about the belt at least from one axial belt end up to at least the other axial belt end, the ratio of the axial winding component to the circumferential winding component along the rubber strip is less than 0.01, and, over at least 70% of the axial belt width, does not vary by more than 2%. The spacing of two neighboring cords in two adjacent portions of the wound rubber strip at each circumferential position does not vary by more than 5% compared to the spacing of the cords in the rubber strip. The cords in the bandage are subjected to tension of at least 3 N/mm.sup.2 over at least 25% of the axial belt width.