Originally Posted by
wroomwroomoops
From people who have actually used belt drives on bicycles (I know various), they last less.
And how about durability? The belts are of the quality that see 100,000 hard miles in car engines and the manufacturers reckon they'll get over 20,000km out of a bicycle belt.
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