Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing pneumatic tire

A method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire for two-wheeled vehicles, the pneumatic tire comprising a tread, and a band located on a radial inside of the tread, the band comprising a center portion located in an axial center thereof and a shoulder portion located on an axial outside of the center portion, wherein the method comprises

• a step of laminating the band;
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• a step of laminating the tread, wherein the step of laminating the band further comprises
• a step of winding a second band body in a meshed manner to obtain the shoulder portion;
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• a step of winding a first band body in a circumferential direction to obtain the center portion, wherein
• in the step to obtain the shoulder portion, the second band body is wound in the meshed manner by repeating:
• a step of inclining the second band body in a direction with respect to the circumferential direction and winding the second band body from a position taken as an axially inner end of the shoulder portion to a position taken as an axially outer end of the shoulder portion;
• a step of winding the second band body in the circumferential direction in the position taken as the axially outer end of the shoulder portion;
• and a step of inclining the second band body in an opposite direction opposite to the direction with respect to the circumferential direction and winding the second band body from the position taken as the axially outer end of the shoulder portion to the position taken as the axially inner end of the shoulder portion;
• wherein the shoulder portion comprises a plurality of first portions, a plurality of second portions and a plurality of third portions, wherein
• each of the first portions is inclined in the direction with respect to the circumferential direction and extends from the axially inner end of the shoulder portion to the axially outer end of the shoulder portion;
• each of the second portions is inclined in the opposite direction opposite to the direction of the first portion with respect to the circumferential direction and extends from the axially inner end of the shoulder portion to the axially outer end of the shoulder portion;
• each of the third portions extends parallelly along the circumferential direction on the axially outer end of the shoulder portion, wherein an end of one of the third portions contacts an end of another one of the third portions adjacently disposed with the one of the third portions, and each two of the third portions are arranged in the circumferential direction with no gap and no overlap therebetween;
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• the plurality of the first portions, the plurality of the second portions and the plurality of the third portions are jointlessly connected so as to form one second band body;
• wherein a circumferential distance between adjacent first portions or between adjacent second portions is represented as RD,
• a circumferential length of the third portion is represented as L, and
• a ratio (L/RD) of the circumferential length L to the circumferential distance RD is equal to 1.0.