Re: belt drives

On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:13:55 -0500,
  zen cycle <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:

 On 1/27/2025 7:27 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

<https://youtu.be/OlDYHoiqpew?si=dxpa83lxcQxIBEO5>
 
That Ben Denlaney has a new Gravel bike on test with a belt
drive, and his “pub bike” which has belt drive, and the good
and the bad with such systems. Ie punctures are faff and I
guess weight to a degree, ie hub vs derailleur systems.
 
Though touching wood I’ve found Gravel tyres with tubeless
fairly reliable particularly considering that one is riding
fairly challenging terrain on paper thin tyres!
 
Certainly considering how much of puncture fess tubes on
Gravel is or was! Tubeless generally solves that, so would
largely remove that problem.
 
Though I’m not sure if belts like mud and muck I have vague
memories of MTB belt drives not performing that well in such
situations?

   Gates drive has been around a while, generally good reviews.
 The idea of having an 'accessible' rear triangle seems
 troublesome to me though.

The Gates belts have been used for at least a decade for timing on
tandems.  They're pretty common with folks who have high end
bikes.  Most seem pretty satisfied with them.  I haven't been
convinced to go that route myself, though.

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Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA