This is the second story that Euan Pennington sent us and it focuses in on the Rohloff/Gates Carbon Drive he used on his fat-bike build. Recently I created a new bike, the “Steel Donkey”, and in doing so I went looking for a reliable and long lasting drive train that could survive abuse, remote […]
Our neighbor, from across Lake Michigan, Mr. Scott Quiring of Quiring Cycles just finished up this whee KVA stainless, Gates belt drive fat bike with a NuVinci n 360 hub in his Free Soil, Michigan, bicycle laboratory. Scott machined a 35 mm spacer on the non-drive side to convert the frame spacing from 170 […]
Damian from Cog Bike Cafe in Australia sent in these pix of a Neck Romancer that they converted to belt compatibility for a customer and then finished it off with Rohloff build! Here is a run down on the parts: Surly Neck Romancer with Belt Drive Conversion Gates Belt Drive Red Rohloff Speedhub Red 135mm […]
In an article a month or so back we looked at the NuVinci N360 as a fat-bike friendly hub with a standard chain drive and the promise of a belt drive setup using the Gates CenterTrack system to come. Well, here it is! To install a belt drive system on your bike you will either […]
