belts have a 75000 mile service length,quieter and alot cleaner.i will stay with belt drive.

 

I am riding one of the last factory chain drive bikes...with a modern o-ring chain there is no real maintenance....doesn't last as long as a belt but takes 10 minutes to change

 

I had an 84FXST for over 20 years. After I picked up a belt drive I can say no comparison. The chain always made the bike a mess and the 10 minute took a lot longer when you had to change out the sprockets too. No carrying chain oil on vaca either. Can I chatter the belt.. Sure but I try to take it easy from a dead stop. Somethings gotta give either the clutch or the belt.

 

or the tire ....

Wooohoooo !!!!!


with 90% of people favoring belts it proves my point that chain drive is better !!!

Just look at top forty music and the most popular television and then ask yourself..."do I really want to be in the majority ?"

So you guys can keep your belt drives.... and your "Jersey Shore"...

 

[QUOTE=rmatt34;7508775]It's cheaper to do a chain conversion than to replace a belt (most of the time...) seems like a no brainer to me... My streetslob is the only rig that I have a belt on, BUT as soon as I break it (and I will break it..) I am converting this thing too...

Like I said before, I can cut through a belt with my kid's safety scissors... but they won't cut a finger... would you use a final drive made out of fingers ?[/QUOTE]


I TOTALLY would....... how badass would that be????

 

I had chain drive all my life, starting with my bicycles. My current twinky is the first belt driven bike I got. And I like it. Come on, that white chain grease on the rims, the sprocket wear, the adjustments, trying to fool around with the belt clips when the chain breaks on the side of the road, and so on. I had a scottoiler on my Kawa, worked just fine, but was a bitch to install.

 

Had too many chains. Belts for me from now on. Unless of course I pick up an old scoot.

 

I'd take a belt over a chain any day. And I don't watch Jersey whatever

 

I'm runnin a chain. I actually like having to lube and adjust it from time to time. Makes me feel like I'm still involved with the bike beyond just riding it.

I understand that most shine and polish but to me that's not interacting with the machine.

I think that those of you that have been riding Harley's for a long time can relate to what I'm saying. Those that can't.....I feel sorry for you in a way.

These new maintenance free bikes are good I guess but we've lost one of the things that in my opinion made owning a Harley fun. That was the associations that we had with other riders that went beyond chrome and clothes. Some of the best riding buddy's I had I met on the side of the road when they or I were broke down and one of us stopped to help the other.

I have some very fond memories of sitting in someone's garage or carport or living room. Drinking beer, listening to music and working on our bikes together.

I guess it's one of those "If I have to explain you wouldn't understand" things.

Even though I miss those days I don't miss them enough to start riding a Pan again. I do still enjoy a little tinkering but gettin to old to be doin major repairs on the side of the road anymore.

 

A big bad Harley can be stooped dead in it's tracks by a pebble no bigger than a pea.......That don't make it a big bad Harley to me, It makes it quite delicate.......like when the wifes vacuum sucks up a doily and snaps a belt......GIVE ME A CHAIN!.....a big bad chain........