Grant's belt drive all-road frame

Grant was after a bike to commute to work on and be able to head off on fire-roads as well, with a few nice bits fitted. This frame requires a split to get the belt inside the rear triangle of the frame. There are several solutions to that, and I chose Spot Brand Bikes' split rear dropout for this frame.

Gates' new belt drive....

Ritchey Breakaway travel frame joints .... to enable the bike to fit in a 'regulation' size suitcase....

Shimano's new Alfine 11 speed hub (not yet on the Shimano website at this stage)...

the even newer Versa 11-speed shifters created for use of the Alfine hub with drop-bars, which Grant fitted later and he reports work as well as the Shimano thumb shifter) ..... see photo below.

Avid BB7 Road cable disc brakes for use with drop-bar brake levers....

internal cable routing for the Schmidt SON dynamo front hub : up the fork leg, into the headtube, around the fork steerer and out the rear of the top-tube for the rear light.

one of Darrell's lugged Llewellyn stems .....

and a set of his Limpets were used as well.

The rear hub gears are smooth from new and shift well. The belt-drive is surprisingly un-noticeable which is all you want really along with the clean, low (zero?)-maintenance and longer service life compared with a chain.

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