I've been riding for over 35 years and have my 1st belt drive,so I'm going through the drive belts faster than anything. Then I'm on the computer ,with my dog a large catahoula in the house and I notice he's chewing on a broken 2"drive belt I just replaced. So no maintenance is not the most important thing in drive belts, its parking somewhere your cur dog cant chew up your bike. When he was a pup I had to break him from chewing up the garden hose this time I just the broken drive from a tree with a limb that pulls back and he loves pulling on it.