| Author | Message | ||
     Teeps |
Well thanks to Cal Trans spreading 9 miles of "loose gravel" on my favorite road. I will never know how far my '06 Ulysses' original belt would have gone... 28968 miles today when I found the rock whilst removing the rear wheel for a new tire. Even with all of the factory belt guards in place a rock managed to get in there and poke a hole. | ||
| Sparky |
Teeps, where abouts in SoCal is CT doing their 'Road Destruction'? Inquiring minds would like to avoid that particular road too. FWIW I've seen a good portion of Sage Rd off of CA 79 covered with fresh pea gravel. It'd be best to avoid that rd for a while too. | ||
| Froggy |
I rode my 1125CR for 8000 miles with a hole in the belt from a stone before it broke during a wheelie | ||
| Hughlysses |
Barker rode his XB9R, with the original "fragile" Gates belt for something like 40k miles with no guards, and a stone hole in it for a good portion of that mileage, before it finally broke. | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Timely topic.. I popped a belt on my 06 Uly last Friday on the way home from work. It too had what looked to be a stone hole in it. While I was waiting for a neighbor to bring a trailer and retrieve me, I called Al at American Sport Bike and got a new belt on the way.. The original 06 belt had about 23,000 and change on it. | ||
| Danair |
My 06 belt snapped clean across putting it in gear at a traffic light after getting off the I-5. Didn't know till I let out the clutch and went nowhere. It was laying on the ground right there. 17k miles, no visible damage. | ||
| Uly_man |
"Didn't know till I let out the clutch and went nowhere. It was laying on the ground right there". I have had three belts go, 7k miles for each one, the same way. Two on (AKD and AKE) the 06 bike and one (AKE) on the 10 bike. All with no damage to them. It is the long travel suspension on the Uly that causes the extra stress to the belt fibers, rather than damage, as will many more gear changes that I do. I other words the conditions have an effect. | ||
| Nillaice |
I've broken 2 and they happened to be when downshifting too fast/clutchlessly ... Not that they weren't gonna break on the next wheelie. They are still cheaper than a chain drive | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Ulyman, Maybe your belts rot because of all the rain in your neck of the world. My only belt break happened at 25,000 miles. Probably much drier here in Midwest US than in Great Britain. I've recently purchased a spare in case my boy's 07' or my 06' happens to snap. When the rear tire gets old and needs changing I'll swap in the new belt and use the stretched belt as the spare like most Uly owners here do. | ||
| Teeps |
Sparky Posted on Monday, August 19, 2013 Teeps, where abouts in SoCal is CT doing their 'Road Destruction'? Inquiring minds would like to avoid that particular road too. Coastal mountain road. Latigo Canyon Rd., started about 2 miles in and continued all the way to Kanan Dume Rd. Ironically, they are doing the same "repairs" on our residential streets this month too. I'm thinking they got a good deal on gravel and tar. The Bastages!!!! (Message edited by teeps on August 20, 2013) | ||
| Teeps |
Froggy Posted on Monday, August 19, 2013 I rode my 1125CR for 8000 miles with a hole in the belt from a stone before it broke during a wheelie Had I not spotted the rock, I would have ridden on, blissfully ignorant of the condition. I guess I'll keep it for a desperation spare. | ||
| Uly_man |
"Ulyman, Maybe your belts rot because of all the rain in your neck of the world". It may be the case but I do not think so. It is road conditions, lots of gear changes and my riding style. They all went the same way, with no damage, at about 1000 miles after new rubber. The last time I changed the wheel out myself and I was SUPER CAREFUL with the belt but it still broke. The cores broke from within the belt. I do not know why. | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Mine looked like dry rot at 25000 miles. I still have that belt hanging up in the hallway to the garage. | ||
| Sagehawk |
I'm trying an approach one other has tried on this site, and that was drilling tensioner assembly holes a bit bigger and then then with a 10 mm endmill, eyeballed the left hole .030 higher tto slot said hole. That allowed the tensioner to roll down a bit and loosen things up. After dealing with fan drives of this fashion for years, they all seemed to tight. I've loosened wifes sporster, my roadking belts and these bikes are 17 years old, 26000 and 76000 miles. No failed wheel bearings or broke belts. In fairness to uelly may, I have replaced rear wheel bearings and broke belt once. | ||
| Teeps |
Sagehawk, Probably not a bad idea. | ||
| Sagehawk |
Bout 800 miles on mod and it seems smoother, on/off throttle transition smoother, bike just feels better. I'm not much burnout wheelie guy. Just want to enjoy bike with as few headaches as possible. Way its set now, you can spin tensioner wheel if you really want to by hand. Time will tell. |
