Motorcycle tire

A motorcycle tire having an intended rotational direction and comprising

• a tread portion having a pair of tread edges and provided on each side of the tire equator with main oblique grooves, wherein
• each said main oblique groove comprises a main portion extending from the tire equator toward one of the tread edges while inclining to the direction opposite to the intended rotational direction, and a sub portion extending in the tire circumferential direction from a toe-side end of the main portion toward the intended tire rotational direction,
• the main portion includes a part overlapping the tire equator which part has an inclination angle of not more than 20 degrees with respect to the tire equator,
• the main portion has such a dimension that the circumferential ends thereof are positioned outside a ground contacting area of the tire in a normally inflated loaded state of the tire at a camber angle of zero degrees when the circumferential center of the maximum circumferential length of said ground contacting area coincides with the center of the circumferential range of a part of the tire equator overlapping the main portion, and
• the tread portion is provided between the ground contact edges with a land ratio of from 75 to 95%, wherein the ground contact edges are the axially outermost edges of the ground contacting area.

A motorcycle tire having an intended rotational direction and comprising

• a tread portion having a pair of tread edges and provided on each side of the tire equator with main oblique grooves, wherein
• each said main oblique groove comprises a main portion extending from the tire equator toward one of the tread edges while inclining to the direction opposite to the intended rotational direction,
• the main portion includes a part overlapping the tire equator which part has an inclination angle of not more than 20 degrees with respect to the tire equator,
• the main portion has such a dimension that the circumferential ends thereof are positioned outside a ground contacting area of the tire in a normally inflated loaded state of the tire at a camber angle of zero degrees when the circumferential center of the maximum circumferential length of said ground contacting area coincides with the center of the circumferential range of a part of the tire equator overlapping the main portion, and
• the tread portion is provided between the ground contact edges with a land ratio of from 75 to 95%, wherein the ground contact edges are the axially outermost edges of the ground contacting area,
• and wherein
• the tread portion is provided on each side of the tire equator with auxiliary oblique grooves not overlapping with the tire equator,
• the auxiliary oblique grooves are inclined toward the direction opposite to the intended tire rotational direction from its axially inner end to its axially outer end,
• the auxiliary oblique grooves include an inwardly shifted auxiliary oblique groove which is disposed on one side of the tire equator and whose heel-side end overlaps in the tire axial direction with the heel-side end of the main oblique groove on the other side of the tire equator.