Tire with chafer and toeguard

A pneumatic tire having a pair of spaced apart bead components, a connecting carcass between the bead components, a pair of sidewalls overlying the carcass, and a rubber chafer portion adjacent to each of the sidewalls and positioned around at least a portion of each of the bead components and intended for contacting a rigid rim of a wheel, the rubber chafer portion comprising a radially innermost toe guard and a chafer adjacent to a radially outer end of the toe guard;

• the toe guard having the radially outer end disposed at a sidewall axially outer surface and the radially outer end of the toe guard located from 3 mm radially inward from a radial center of a bead to 60 mm radially outward from the radial center of the bead;
• wherein a ratio of a modulus of the toe guard to a modulus of the chafer is in the range of 5 to 8;
• wherein the toe guard comprises a rubber composition comprising
• 100 parts by weight, per 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr) of a diene based elastomer;
• 10 to 30 phr of a phenolic resin;
• and
• 40 to 80 phr of a carbon black having an Iodine absorption value in a range of from about 100 to about 300 g/kg;
• wherein the modulus is measured as G′ at 1 percent strain and 100° C., and G′ for the toe guard ranges from 10 to 30 MPa, and G′ for the chafer ranges from 2 to 4 MPa.