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I'm not able to accurately tell how much the belt on my Ditrict has stretched as I'v had it on and off the bike loads, currently off as I'm running the bike fixed, but i'v had the belt on it a fair bit and i'm still able to get it tensioned with the limited adjustability of the District frame so if it has stretched it hasn't stretched much.
I have another bike that uses a Gates carbon belt drive though, an 883cc Harley Sportster and in over a year of owning it (and riding it hard) I haven't touched the belt tension.
Compare that to when I had a chain driven Yamaha xt660 which had a smaller engine. With that bike I had to adjust chain tension on average, weekly and if I drove from Glasgow to Fort William (just over a hundred miles, lots of twisty roads so accelerating and braking and overtaking) I'd have to take tools with me to do the tension before I rode back.
So, do you think i'm gonna worry about the belt for my Trek stretching?