Motorcycle tire and motorcycle tire set

A motorcycle tire set consisting of a front wheel tire and a rear wheel tire, each of the front wheel tire and the rear wheel tire comprising:

• a tread portion having a pair of tread edges;
• and
• a tread rubber forming a ground contacting surface of the tread portion, wherein
• the tread rubber includes
• a crown rubber disposed in a crown region including the tire equator, and
• a pair of shoulder rubbers disposed one on each side of the crown rubber in the tire axial direction, and extending to the tread edges, respectively,
• a complex elastic modulus Ec* of the crown rubber is smaller than a complex elastic modulus Es* of each of the shoulder rubbers, and
• when the motorcycle tire under a regular state in which the tire is mounted on a regular rim and inflated to a regular internal pressure, is placed on a flat horizontal surface, by applying a regular tire load, ground contact areas A0, A10 and A40 of the tire at tire camber angles of 0 degrees, 10 degrees and 40 degrees, respectively, satisfies the following conditional expressions:
• 0.3
• <=
• (
• Ec
• *
• ×
• A
• ⁢
• 0
• )
• /
• (
• Es
• *
• ×
• A
• ⁢
• 40
• )
• <=
• 1.05
• ;
• and
• 0.95
• <=
• A
• ⁢
• 10
• /
• A
• ⁢
• 0
• <=
• 1.05
• ,
• wherein
• in each of the front wheel tire and the rear wheel tire, the complex elastic modulus Ec* of the crown rubber is smaller than the complex elastic modulus Es* of each of the shoulder rubbers, and
• a difference (Es *−Ec*) F between the complex elastic modulus Ec* of the crown rubber and the complex elastic modulus Es* of each shoulder rubber of the front wheel tire is larger than a difference (Es *−Ec*) R between the complex elastic modulus Ec* of the crown rubber and the complex elastic modulus Es* of each shoulder rubber of the rear wheel tire.