Chain was Yesterday….Carbon drive belt is today!

August 21, 2008 in Bicycles, Hubs & Parts, Urban Bikes
Tags: belt, bicycle, drive, Gates carbon drive, Nicolai, system, TREK

It looks like that the belt technology breaks into the bicycle world. There have been many attemps to create a belt system which can replace a chain. They all failed! But now we see some of the big bicycle manufacturer using the belt drive…
The refernce according belt drive systems comes from Gates. A company who [...]

When reality comes around…

August 21, 2008 in Urban Bikes
Tags: AVID, cannondale, internal gear hub, On, Sram i-Motion 9

The guys from velojournal had the chance to test the Cannondale “On” concept. Here are the results in brief

The Sram i-motion internal gear hub offers always the right gear. But with luggage and on long climbs gears with small ratios are missing!
The chain is perfect capsuled.
AVID disc brake performance is good
Front suspension performance great (Lefty!)
The [...]