Belt drive conversions?

[The Pastor]

i second the love for belt drive... But now i have a buell... It came with its very own belt drive no need for conversion...

I was getting sick of changing the chain every 3 months... And that was the expensive ones... Too much streaching and oiling and noise and crap...

So instead of replacing the chain i replaced the bike with the buell... Hehehehehe i figuered it would be cheaper in the long run instead of buying chains every 3 months.

you do 80 000k every 3 months?

[Bonez]

Holy crapola! What a kooont of a job!
What crap engineering!
What primitive design!
I know I shouldn't be, but I was actually amazed at just how crappy the whole design was - looks very agricultural/industrial.

I like the bit at the beginning saying he needed "little tools" to do the job - they're all fookin' HUGE ones!

(Yeah yeah - I know he meant "few tools".)

It's all about becoming one with your machine luv. Cudos to the chap putting up the proceedure for others to peruse.

Like any job I guess once you've done it once, cocked up, broken something, had another go, made another special tool, given up in discussed, gotten pissed, woken up the next morning ot find everything works out just so.

As mentioned in the artical belt pulleys do wear as they're still subject to road spooge(there's a chap in the states who makes synthetic tooth replacements that fit over machined OEM pulleys) If my belt drive has done 100,000kms I'd be seriously thinking about replacing it and inspecting the front drive pulley for damage.

An example of long term usage here - http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/forwood/bike2.shtml

Having read that i never want a belt drive.

There are bikes out there whose belt replacment is much more straight fwd afair. The Suzuki Savage/Boulvard S40 or Yamaha V-Star 950 for examples.