Comments on: Commuter and City Bikes with Gates Carbon Drive https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/ smart living by bike Tue, 31 Oct 2023 03:04:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Theron Williams https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-110674 Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:39:50 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-110674 This article is years old. How about recent offerings from bicycle companys

]]> By: Dr. Bicycle https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-109705 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:49:10 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-109705 I don’t want to hear or read that a belt drive is “a build option.” Stop screwing the cyclist. Chain drives are greasy, noisy, and a mess to use. Chain drives are dinosaur technology and last half as long as a belt drive. The purpose of belt drives is NOT to wave this at the customer as an excuse to charge more. And yes, most of those featured here are high dollar boutique shop options.with only REI and Priority getting their price down to seriously wanting to move product. Proof you CAN get a belt drive bike at $550 and even $350. And you can expect the cycling customer to beat a path to their door. The wave of the future is here now. And affordable to those who take the time to read this article and make their purchase.

]]> By: 1Ronald https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-108560 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:03:32 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-108560 Where is Naked getting that $350 EXTRA to add a Gates belt drive instead of a greasy chain? Nice trick if you can pull it off. If you want to sell bikes stop doing this to the consumer.

]]> By: E Charles Murray https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-101447 Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:58:29 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-101447 Bravo! What a nice website. I love most of the bikes featured. I sense you like people, the outdoors, and riding cool bikes. Keep outpacing the competition! Hebrews 12:1

]]> By: Yan Lyansky https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-95230 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 03:26:10 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-95230 Downtube has two Shimano Nexus 8sp models with Gates CDX belt drives for as little as $699. They were the first belt drive folding bikes in the USA, starting in 2014. Check out http://www.downtube.com

]]> By: Bob Barnett https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-95229 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 02:21:37 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-95229 I have a Downtube 8H. Gates drive and groovy!

]]> By: RobertR https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-92647 Tue, 30 May 2017 19:44:02 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-92647 I have the Allston made by Montague. It is a terrific bike and I have probably put 1,000 miles on it in the last 6 months. I got it in the fall, and commuted to work, to my wife’s amazement, all winter. Definitely like the Gates belt with Alfine 11. I tell everyone it is the perfect commuter bike – fits in the trunk and on the train.

]]> By: Tony Daniells https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-92532 Fri, 26 May 2017 06:20:05 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-92532 I’ve been riding a Ceres belt drive in the UK for 8 years ow but for some reason they have never caught on. They are great on a commuter bike as they are virtually maintenance free. In this time I have had no problems with the belt or hub gears. I have taken the back wheel out to replace a tube and it went back in as easy as it came out.. The Brits seem to love their derailleur gears, but as many of them commute on the flat, a gates with a hub gear would be mush better. On the European Continent, they embrace the hub gear but still with the chain. UK cycle shops do not stock many bikes with the gates carbon drive as I guess there is not the demand.

]]> By: Jim https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-92531 Fri, 26 May 2017 06:00:58 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-92531 I like the Continuum from Priority, it’s got the belt drive, hydraulic disc brakes and a nuvinci hub.

]]> By: John Hoffman https://momentummag.com/commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-92525 Fri, 26 May 2017 01:33:48 +0000 http://momentummag.com/gear/bikes/city-bike/5-great-commuter-bikes-with-gates-carbon-drive/#comment-92525 I have a Beltway and it’s awesome.

Your quote on the Bullitt pricing, though, is way low for the US. Last I saw an Alfine 8 Bullitt at Splendid Cycles ran $3600, which is $1000 lower than your listed price after conversion, doesn’t factor in accessories you probably want like box options and a rain cover for child portaging. Can’t recommend the Alfine 11 for that application either, since there are a lot of iffy reliability reports.

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