Originally Posted by
twocicle
BTW, the only reasoning they had for no longer producing the 71T was that they were building only for current framebuilder/OEM "standard" sizes, regardless of losing the business of frame owners with all the previous builds. I doubt there is sufficient market to justify anyone licensing the ring spec from Gates and produce 3rd party versions / more sizes.
I think that's shortsighted on Gates' part. My gut tells me tandems have a longer "lifespan" than single bikes because they cost so much to begin with. So there are tons of older tandems out there that could benefit from belt drive if it were available. They are artificially limiting their market.