I’m probably buying a new bike in the next couple weeks or so, and am intrigued by belt drives, but I don’t know that much about them. Anyone got experience with them?
I’m probably buying a new bike in the next couple weeks or so, and am intrigued by belt drives, but I don’t know that much about them. Anyone got experience with them?
Is it really next to no maintenance, or is that just ad copy?
Have you noticed much ride feel difference between it and a chain?
Do you know much about different belt drive systems / if they are really materially different from each other? Seems like its kinda between gates and veer for options?
As far as Internally geared hubs, I’ve only ever ridden old sturmy archer, I’m guessing modern ones have come a long way, but how do they perform?
this has been my only bike for probably five years or so, and i haven’t had to do anything with the belt. so far as i can tell, it really is basically maintenance free.
i don’t really know much about belt drives beyond the basics and my own specific bike. i didn’t even know there were different types until ya’ll started bringing them up.
the internally geared hub is a bit of a PITA, but idk if that’s normal, or if mine is just janky. i also have no idea how old my bike is originally, since i got it used from a community bike shop. my hub though has an annoying habit of ‘skipping’ if you apply too much torque, and slipping out of the low gear unexpectedly. i wish it had something like a schlumpf drive with some variety of single speed hub instead.