After one year, and 2,500 miles of use, we're also happy with our belt drive (which cam on our new Co-Motion Speedster). There have been a few maintenance things to learn about because of the differences from chains, but I've written about these elsewhere in this forum and so won't repeat them here. Overall, I have no regrets about going with this option.

A lot of bike manufacturers seem to be exploring the use of belt drives now; there were many new models of single bikes shown at Eurobike and Interbike with belt drives fitted. This can only help to drive costs down a bit.