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Smart move the extra work changing them and not being able to fix along the road are the main reasons I don't like them but you also give up some grunt due to the stretch of the belt.





Stretch of the belt?? Don't know what kind cheap belts you have used, but i have a 115hp sportster that I switched over to a belt because I kept stretching chains. Belts break for 3 reasons...too tight, rocks, and wrong size/application. An 1 1/8" is more then strong enough to handle any power from a triumph twin. You have to run them loose, and I mean really loose. If you can't move the belt at least 3/4" up and down, it is too tight. And you have to adjust them with the bike loaded-same as you should do with a chain.

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