Motorcycle tire

A motorcycle tire comprising:

• a tread portion having a ground contacting surface;
• a pair of sidewall portions;
• a pair of bead portions;
• a carcass extending between bead portions through the tread portion and the sidewall portions;
• tread reinforcing layers disposed radially outside the carcass in the tread portion, and including a belt layer and a band layer disposed radially outside the belt layer;
• the belt layer comprising a first belt ply disposed adjacently to the carcass and a second belt ply disposed radially outside the first belt ply;
• and
• the band layer comprising a band cord wound spirally in the circumferential direction of the tire and having a developed width smaller than that of the belt layer, wherein
• in a meridian cross-section of the tire which is mounted on a standard wheel rim and of which internal pressure is 10 kPa, the ground contacting surface of the tread portion is such that:
• a radius of curvature Rc of the ground contacting surface of the tire in its crown region passing through the tire equator, is less than 95% of the cross-sectional width of the tire;
• and
• the radius of curvature Rc is smaller than a radius of curvature Rb of the ground contacting surface of the tire in a shoulder region defined on the axially outer side of an axial edge of the band layer.