Comments on: Belt Driving Fixed Gear Bikes http://www.fixedgearbiking.co.uk/blog/2009/04/belt-driving-fixed-gear-bikes/ Fixies, Track Bikes, Bike Porn and other Fixed Gear Biking Stuff Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:43:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: schimschone http://www.fixedgearbiking.co.uk/blog/2009/04/belt-driving-fixed-gear-bikes/comment-page-1/#comment-237 schimschone Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:36:09 +0000 http://www.fixedgearbiking.co.uk/blog/?p=77#comment-237 In my experience belt-driven motorcycles are crap.. while you have less maintenance in the short run, replacing a belt is far more of a task than replacing a chain.. requiring the complete removal of the rear wheel in the best of models. This has little effect on bicycles though.. in that removing a wheel is just par for the course. But in relation to fixed-gear I believe it has some drawbacks.. you don't find belts on performance motorcycles, because the belt loses the springyness found in a chain.. thus losing the ability to control sudden changes in tork, going in and out of turns particularly. My assumption.. and keep that in mind as I talk out of my ass now.. is that on a fixed gear that could pose some problems at some stage. Or I could be a luddite. In my experience belt-driven motorcycles are crap.. while you have less maintenance in the short run, replacing a belt is far more of a task than replacing a chain.. requiring the complete removal of the rear wheel in the best of models. This has little effect on bicycles though.. in that removing a wheel is just par for the course.

But in relation to fixed-gear I believe it has some drawbacks.. you don’t find belts on performance motorcycles, because the belt loses the springyness found in a chain.. thus losing the ability to control sudden changes in tork, going in and out of turns particularly. My assumption.. and keep that in mind as I talk out of my ass now.. is that on a fixed gear that could pose some problems at some stage.

Or I could be a luddite.

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