Pneumatic tire with rim protector

A pneumatic tire provided with a tread with a crown shape, a pair of bead portions, a pair of sidewalls connecting said tread and said bead portion, with rim protectors continuously formed in the tire circumferential direction and which protrude outwardly from an outer side of the tire a distance greater than an outer surface of the sidewall, formed on at least one outer surface of said pair of sidewalls extending from said bead portions toward said tread direction, wherein said rim protectors have a first top portion protruded most to the tire outer side from said outer surface through a first hillside portion in a cross-sectional shape from said bead portions toward said tread direction a second top portion protruded in a stepped state from the first top portion through a second hillside portion, and said second hillside portion extending more to a tire inner side than a virtual line X which connects a vertex P of said first top portion and an end point E in a thread side of a virtual circular arc L on said outer surface of sidewalls on which said rim protectors are form;

• and wherein a step portion of the second hillside portion extends to the second top portion and is formed in a round shape.