Bike porn

No idea if anyone has posted this before, I rarely check this thread these days. But Phil Wood are making belt drive cogs and sprockets

http://www.philwood.com/products/new/

a friend of mine build up his custom bike at the moment and bought the phil carbon drive, fucking amazing

Looks sexy, if a bit heavy. The Gates chainring and sprocket have holes in them the stop shite clogging up the system. This was apparantly developed after previous designs showed it was needed. I wonder why the Phil rings dont have this. Are they hipster only?

It is a lovely system though. So smooth and quite.

look heavy as fuck though.
IMO if your that bothered about how smooth the drive surely it would be easier to just clean your chain often, rather than add a million kilos to the weight of your bike :)

then again i've never ridden a belt drive, so ignore me...

Belt driver are lighter than chain drives

oh. how, may i ask?

Less metal. More carbon.

Fuck, did I really just post that?

i thought the chainrings were metal, or are they only the phil ones?

Just the Phil ones.

Maybe that's for the MTB crowd? Heavy as fuck by the look of it. It's not like the ones made by Gates aren't strong enough to do the job well.

doesn't carbon wear really quickly?
or does the belt massively reduce wear?
and just so i understand: is the belt made of rubber?

Even with Aluminium pulleys, which probably are a little heaver than roller chain sprockets, the huge reduction in weight by switching from a steel chain which weighs about 240-360g to a belt which weighs <100g more than compensates.

The belt consists of carbon fibre tension cords enclosed in a rubber outer casing.

aha.
well back on topic:
with a different saddle, bar tape, matching tires & possibly different levers = porn imo

pah, i'd do it in its current guise

I'd quite happily say that's already porn.

+1

nah, shorter saddle really is a must. the flite is to long. imo flite's only work well on top of lots of seatpost.

I can see where you're coming from but it looks fine, it's one of the most comfortable saddles and as well as matching the bike nicely aesthetically, it matches the era of the bike too.

Shame about the whopping dent :-(

doesn't carbon wear really quickly?
or does the belt massively reduce wear?
and just so i understand: is the belt made of rubber?

all cars run a belt drive for the fan/radiator cooler. that will put in far more many miles than some guy on a bike.
they are not totally made of rubber, they're usually cloth embeded.
they are far lighter than a steel chain.
there is very little stretch.

Shame about the whopping dent :-(

Gives it character

english cycles again with his own lightweight project; seatstays like whut??

Weight rated?

gotta be NJS, they're made outa chop sticks

Weight rated?

Rob weighs nothing, should be fine for him.