MOTORCYCLE TIRE
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October 13, 2022
A motorcycle tire includes a tread rubber that includes a base rubber layer and a cap rubber layer disposed outward in the tire radial direction of the base rubber layer to form a ground contact surface. The cap rubber layer includes a crown cap portion disposed in a middle region in the tire axial direction of a tread portion and a pair of shoulder cap portions disposed in both sides in the tire axial direction of the crown cap portion. The crown cap portion has a loss tangent tan δc, the shoulder cap portions have a loss tangent tan δs, and the base rubber layer has a loss tangent tan δb, wherein the loss tangents tan δc, tan δs and tan δb satisfy the following equation (1): tan δc
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