Motorcycle tire set
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorKenji Nonaka
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Abstract
A motorcycle tire set includes a front-wheel tire and a rear-wheel tire. Each of the front and rear-wheel tires includes a carcass, a band layer arranged radially outwardly of the carcass in the tread portion, and a tread rubber arranged radially outwardly of the band layer. The carcass includes a carcass ply including carcass cords. The band layer includes a jointless band ply in which a band cord is circumferentially wound spirally at an angle equal to or less than 5 degrees. The tread rubber includes a crown rubber portion. An angle θ1 of the carcass cords of the front-wheel tire is 65 degrees or more with respect to the tire circumferential direction. A rubber hardness of the crown rubber portion of the rear-wheel tire is greater than a rubber hardness of the crown rubber portion of the front-wheel tire.
Claims15
A motorcycle tire set comprising:
- a front-wheel tire;
- and
- a rear-wheel tire,
- wherein
- each of the front-wheel tire and the rear-wheel tire comprises a tread portion, a toroidal carcass, a band layer arranged outwardly in a tire radial direction of the carcass in the tread portion, and a tread rubber arranged outwardly in the tire radial direction of the band layer,
- the carcass comprises a carcass ply comprising a plurality of carcass cords,
- the band layer comprises a jointless band ply in which a band cord is wound spirally in a tire circumferential direction at an angle equal to or less than 5 degrees, and
- the tread rubber comprises an outer surface between tread edges,
- the outer surface of the tread rubber consists of
- a crown rubber portion formed of a rubber material and disposed in a tread crown region so as to cross a tire equator, and
- a pair of shoulder rubber portions formed of a rubber material different from the rubber material of the crown rubber portion and each extending in a tire axial direction from the crown rubber portion to a respective one of the tread edges,
- wherein
- an angle θ1 of the plurality of carcass cords of the front-wheel tire is equal to or less than 65 degrees with respect to the tire circumferential direction,
- a rubber hardness Hc2 of the crown rubber portion of the rear-wheel tire is greater than a rubber hardness Hc1 of the crown rubber portion of the front-wheel tire,
- in the front-wheel tire, the rubber hardness Hc1 of the crown rubber portion is greater than a rubber hardness Hs1 of the pair of shoulder rubber portions,
- in the rear-wheel tire, a rubber hardness Hs2 of the pair of shoulder rubber portions is greater than the rubber hardness Hc2 of the crown rubber portion, and
- the rubber hardness Hc1 of the crown rubber portion of the front-wheel tire ranges from 58 to 68.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.