Nice and warm for the ride home. 50's F, light clouds.
My lottery ticket in the "1st gen belt drive design flaw" drawing came up today, when the aluminum (new ones are steel) rear pulley splines sheared and the pulley spun freely. At first I thought it was a 'tweener fail on my Alfine, but quickly determined that the time had expired on the pulley.
This is a bad design that Gates has allegedly fixed - IRClean has had this happen, too. I'll make a post over in mechanics forum soon (with pics) to see what others are doing (i.e. replacement with the proper steel pulley).

So, this evening was spent switching the bike back over to singlespeed belt drive. While I was at it I swapped the flat bars out for the shallow drop cx bars. Good to go for the A.M.