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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.

    can you explain a bit more how the sprocket mates to the WI freeweheel?

    i am having my cross check chopped at the moment so i can install belt drive and currently use the WI freewheel

    cheers

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