Mark T wrote:
www.bikebiz.com/news/29367/Carbon-belt-drives-are-standardised

Now that there's a new standard out there, does anything stand in their
way?

Initially, inertia from the innate conservatism of the bike market.
There will naturally be suspicion of a New! Improved! Thing replacing
something that, for all its faults, works pretty well and we're familiar
with it. Fixing something that doesn't seem to be borken, in other words.

But I think that if it's as good as they say (okay, getting on for
almost as good as they say...) then it will gradually appear in more and
more bikes, so if it's going to conquer the world I'd expect it to do it
like alloy rims replaced steel, rather than overnight. But to start
with it does have to be that good, or it will be like DAB replacing FM
(or not, as the case seems to be...)

Pete.
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