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Just ordered all the parts from Phil Wood to finish my flip/flop belt brive project, but it's taken 9 months of speaking to Gates and PW to get anywhere. Now PW are making Gates compatible stuff they're far more helpful. Matt at Hubjub was also very useful.
I've ordered a PW rear 'kiss off' mountain bike hub with a PW 22t belt sprocket with bolts onto the disc brake side. The other side is a 22t PW sprocket mated to a White Industries ENO freewheel. Front is 55t/Belt 113mm.Solved the dropout problem by using an Alan frame which has a slightly smaller rear spacing but the 135mm hub fits in easily enough. I imagine you might have issues using a 120mm spacing due to the extra width of the belt and sprockets. I've not yet seen any mass produced belt bikes using less than a 130mm.
The only issue I can see at the moment is the front sprocket hitting the chainstay, so i'm going to need a much longer BB and some spacers, but it should be fine.
It wasn't cheap, but then obsessions rarely are.