Graham Hill, the founder of TreeHugger.com, came by the office to show off his “Thin Bike” – a collaboration with bike manufacturer, Schindelhauer Bikes (Magdeburg, Germany). Jörg Schindelhauer is a bicycle craftsman who has started a line of bikes utilizing a technology that has been around forever but was never efficient enough for use on bicycles until now. These bikes use a belt drive system, which comes with countless advantages over your standard chain-link drive that we have become so used to. The Gates Corporation (Denver, USA) has teamed with Kalle Nicolai from Universal Transmission to create a carbon belt drive system that is being used on the Schindelhauer Bikes. Some of the benefits of this technology include a silent riding experience with no clicking chain noise, an extremely light weight compared to standard chains, no need for lubricants to maintain efficient usage, and also protects much better from dirt and debris. The most advantageous aspect to the belt drive system has to be the fact that there is virtually no stretch involved, which means no re-adjusting, aligning, or tightening required with chains. Amazing. Check out the rest of the photos below.
See the rest of the models at http://schindelhauerbikes.com
Watch a video of the Viktor model in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVKLWfePks
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Hi Akira,
thanks a lot for the nice post. But I need to clarify 2 things. 1st: we are not a Swedish company, we are located in Magdeburg / Germany. 2nd: the belt drive system has been developed from Gates in cooperation with Kalle Nicolai from Universal Transmission (http://www.g-boxx.com/e-carbondrive.html).It would be great if you could change these points in your article.
Thanks in advance, Jörg.
I have been looking over your blog and really like it. thanx for the great reads! do you ever do any bikecycling ?