Radial motorcycle tyre.

摘要

A radial motorcycle tyre comprising a ground contacting tread region reinforced between its edges by a breaker structure and having a substantially curved profile in radial cross-section of the tyre, a pair of tyre beads each reinforced by a substantially inextensible bead reinforcement hoop and between each tread edge and bead region a tyre sidewall wherein each sidewall is reinforced by not more than two mutually contacting layers of carcass ply reinforcement for at least 80% of the length of the sidewall from tread edge to bead hoop and no other reinforcement fabric component such that the said 80% or more of the sidewall is substantially flexible.

The sidewall preferably contains virtually no apex strip and is also short, i.e. less than 35% of the tyre sectional height (H).