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I rode the Trek District when my LBS have them in stock just to see how it feel, and I can tell you it's fucking awesome (and I use awesome very rarely), extremely quiet, extremely smooth, and just overall felt a thousand time better than chain.

Now my bike don't feel smooth anymore as a result, rat.

my next bicycle will defintely be a belt drive, probably a Merican with an S+S coupler on the rear triangle.

Yeah I've ridden it too. It is amazingly quiet. I'd like to see how they hold up over 6 months or so.
The finish on the wheels is pretty crap and peels off the minute you put a tyre lever on it.

Drive belts and the toothed wheels for them are already cheap - probably cheaper than roller chain and the accompanying sprockets in bulk. The expensive part is the means for separating the drive side rear triangle at some point for belt changes. Any of the suggested methods is labour intensive at the frame manufacture and final assembly stages, so it's unlikely to get significantly cheaper with increased take up.

I meant Belt Drive bikes. Not just the belts. The Trek District is about £800 at the moment for what would be a £350-400 bike if it had a chain.
Also the Soho S (roughly the same bike but with a chain - £400) comes in Black. Much nicer than the grey/orange combo imo.