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I have one and its awsome. There are a couple out on the street that I have seen while riding, but since its not a hip brand people will hate and the bike will never catch on.
You mean aside from having a drivetrain inconsistent with nearly every other bike made in the last hundred years, and for which your local bike shop probably doesn't carry replacement belts the way they do chains, and for which you can't switch out cogs because the belt only comes in one length and can't be adjusted?
cool gimmick, ill definitely pretend to want to buy one and ride one next time Im at a shop that carries them. Until then I cant really comment, perhaps it IS smootherbetterquieter and the like, but i really havent tried it yet. However, looking at it now it just seems like a weak gimmick.
Its pretty cool. I have used it before. Quiet, not for fixed gear really. Flats suck, but they suck with a chain and a Nexus, Alfine, or Rohloff. You also must have an expensive dropout and or coupler for putting on a belt.
They've been using belt drives on Harleys for years. No grease, so it's much cleaner and quieter. Also virtually no maintenance required... Asking if it's going to break is just silly! Those belts are crazy strong.
Meh-tastic. They've tried replacing the chain since it was invented. They keep coming back to it because ... wait for it ... it friggin' works better than anything else.
remember you have to take apart the frame to get the belt on or off.the belt has no master link or whatever.to put the belt on the rear cog it has to pas thru the drive side seat stay . so yea, changing the rear tire would suck.
You would have to build the frame around the belt or somewherez on the rear drive side triangle you will have to have some kind of separation for the belt to go on.
A chain can break yes, it is made of lots of smaller parts which separate. A belt is made as a solid one piece UNIT, yeah I said UNIT. This means it will rip your leg off rather than break, dont trust me. You could suspend yourself from this thing, on about 10% of it. Its not going to break untill you start cutting through it.
Drive shafts have been around and they are pretty good and clean.
The main problem with these systems is>>>>>>>>>
They are unique and require unique parts and accepting frames. Thats it. Not everyone can afford to go out and buy a $1000 fixed gear let alone hundreds of thousands of them to make this anywhere near mainstream. Go to your closest 50 shops, you might just might see 1, on an employees custom 29/urban/fixed werid bike.
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Its pretty cool. I have used it before. Quiet, not for fixed gear really. Flats suck, but they suck with a chain and a Nexus, Alfine, or Rohloff. You also must have an expensive dropout and or coupler for putting on a belt.