Bike chains suck: Belt drive comes of age

The squeak of a dry chain, the clatter of a chain against the steel/aluminum/carbon tubes of your bicycle frame, the ghost shifting for no good reason…chances are if you ride a bike, you’ve experienced at least two of these if not all three. There is a move afoot to change all that and it promises to mark a change in bicycle design that has stayed the same for almost a century.

Belts? Are you kidding me? Won’t they slip? What about mud? Stretch? Wear? It is never going to work.