Originally Posted by
valeriano
Hi,
I'm thinking about buying a belt driven bike. But all bikes I've seen, have vertical dropouts. Like that:
With chains, it doesn't matter how cautious you are, they always stretch and either the derailleur keeps the chain tensioned or you have a horizontal dropout to keep it in the proper tension.
I don't know much about carbon belts, so I'm worried if with time it will stretch and loose tension.
Anyone knows about that?
Also, recommendation on belt driven bikes until €1000 are welcome. But since this is going to be a daily use bike, eyelets for mudgards and racks are important. Also disk brakes are welcome.
We don't live in a dystopia like 1984.
Gates belts are polyurethane. A toxic NOT environmentally friendly concoction of man's modern excess. There is a marketing gimmick to refer to Gates belts as carbon, but they are what they are.
The belts don't stretch. They are very reliable.
However, from an efficiency perspective belt drive is significantly less efficient than chain drive. Nothing is as efficient as chain drive.
Do you want nearly maintenance free but less efficient?