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Dead thread, but never mind.
I've done about 250 miles on mine now. Just tightened everything up and, as you would expect, everything nipped up a lot. Except the belt. It hasn't stretched. Not even a mill.
Good stuff - it really is very quiet. Eerie even. The gearing is about 66 inches, so I can pedal my sorry carcass up Greenwich Park without too much drama, and I can go down it at a reasonable lick without spinning out. The orange is highly visible, and I seem to get a much wider berth than when I was on my rat bike. It's light enough to shoulder up and down stairs with great ease, although I do sully that with a rack and bag.
Weird stuff - It's marmite - 45% of comments are down, with 45% up and 10% offering belt geekery. It's leery - I look a little incongruous on it with my bald heid, pannier and "commuter fashions".
Bad stuff - The chain guard is toilet. It's flimsy and poorly bracketed. It flexes, and this translates to Fizz Wizz type popping noises in the down tube as it shifts under the screws. WD40 sorts it. The near side rack eye is located slap behind the rear brake cable. Jiggery pokery sorts it. The fancy bar tape clumps up easily. Not yet sorted.
Laters.