Radial tire for motorcycle
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorYukihiko Kubo
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Abstract
A radial tire for a motorcycle capable of having high road grip performance both when running at a high speed on a dry road surface and when cornering at a high s]peed, together with the high speed durability, especially a radial tire for a motorcycle with a large displacement to be used for road races, capable of maintaining these performances until the end of the races, is provided. The tilting angles of the cords 13a of said cross-belt 13 are set to 60 degrees or more to the circumferential direction, and a belt protecting layer 15 is disposed outside the spiral-belt 14, the belt protecting layer 15 having cords arranged in the direction tilted at 70 degrees or more to the circumferential direction.
Claims11
A radial tire for a motorcycle comprising:
- a radial carcass consisting of at least one carcass plies, a cross-belt disposed radially outside of the carcass plies and consisting of two layers of belt plies having cords arranged in the opposite direction to each other with regard to the equator of the tire, and a spiral-belt disposed radially adjacently outside the cross-belt, the spiral-belt having a cord wound in the circumferential direction, wherein the tilting angles of the cords of said cross-belt are set to 60 degrees or more with regard to the circumferential direction, and a belt protecting layer is disposed outside said cross-belt, the belt protecting layer having synthetic fiber cords arranged in the direction tilted at 70 degrees or more with regard to the circumferential direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.