I love the belt concept, except it can't be broken. The industry needs to lean on Gates to develop a 'breakable' belt... why must this be left to the frame mfrs to design breakable (or raised chainstay) frames?
On Friday, March 28, 2014 10:48:07 AM UTC-4, Shoji Takahashi wrote: > > Nice bike! ECR? or Krampus? or ?? > > Did you have to get an aftermarket split for the belt drive? > > Happy riding! Shoji > > On Thursday, March 27, 2014 10:30:49 PM UTC-4, Anne Paulson wrote: >> >> It's not a Rivendell, but it has some Rivvy features. Meet Midnight, >> Prince of Darkness: >> >> >> https://plus.google.com/photos/+JohnLamping/albums/5995658591943182593?authkey=CKDxg7ehtuv6QQ >> >> >> I got it yesterday, took it out for a longer ride today. Fantastic. I >> quickly got used to the instant Rohloff shifting. Rohloff + belt drive >> means not much maintenance, which is good for someone with my slipshod >> habits. >> >> It's not obvious in the picture, but those tires are not just wide, >> but HUGE. I rode my Atlantis over to get the car to drive up to Cycle >> Monkey to get Midnight. So then I had two bikes to put in the car, and >> I happened to put the Atlantis wheel next to Midnight's wheel. The >> Atlantis' tire is not tiny; I have Schwalbe 1.9's on the bike. >> Midnight's wheel was six inches taller. Huge. >> >> Now I can do dirt tours and not get nervous on narrow bumpy trails. >> >> I have a USB port in the stem. Because I am a nerd. >> >> -- >> -- Anne Paulson >> >> It isn't a contest. Enjoy the ride. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
