Pneumatic tire manufacturing method, and pneumatic tire

A method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire having a sidewall-over-tread structure with a sidewall formed to cover tread ends, comprising:

• a first cover forming step of wrapping sidewalls on opposite end portions of a first forming drum, pasting an inner liner and a ply on the center of the first forming drum, setting a pair of beads inside said sidewalls, and forming sides of tread by strip-winding on said ply inside said beads, and thereby forming a first cover;
• a tread ring forming step of successively pasting, on a second forming drum, a breaker and a band and then forming a center of tread by strip-winding on said band, and thereby forming a cylindrical tread ring;
• a shaping step of inserting said first cover inside said tread ring, and inflating that portion of said first cover which is between the said beads, and thereby pressure-bonding said tread ring with said first cover to form a shape of a low cover, and
• a turn-up step of turning said sidewalls outside of said beads toward side surfaces of said inflated first cover and pasting said sidewalls on the side surfaces of said first cover,
• wherein
• each of said sides of tread is formed at positions outside said band to be adjacent to respective ends of the center of tread in a tread width direction when the first cover is inflated at the shaping step, and
• bonding said sides of tread on the first cover and said center of tread on said tread ring at the turn-up step.