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Must admitt I agree with most of that. Thing is once you've had the system for some time, you become very adept at tensioning the belt. Took me a fair amount of time to get the chainline correct, while at the same time being happy with the set up of the hub spacers and cassette lockring. Ended up removing a spacer from the drive side of the BB. But once this is done its done.
After a year of running the belt SS off-road. I have too say I love it. If I thought for a micro-second that it would skip. I'd bin it. The biggest benefit of singlespeeding off-road is the solidity of the drivetrain. I would'nt sacrifice that.
I grew up riding a BMX around the trails, and woods on the edge or dartmoor. So I have a terrible habit of trying to jump everything technical. I've crashed, bashed the bike all over the place. But I've never thought to glance down to check the belt. Its never moved.