whats the service life of a drive belt? how many miles have you gotten out of them.

 

Well...it depends on what kind of riding you do, gravel roads, hot and heavy on the throttle, will reduce the life of your belt. If your a little easy on the gas, your belt will last quite a while, possibly 30,000 plus miles. check your belt frequently for rocks, wear, ect. you should get long life out her.

 

Your drive belt should go well over 50,000 miles. Some guys get 100k out of them. But you need to keep them adjusted correctly.

 

The FXR I used to have was still running the original drive belt - 96K miles, and looked like it could go on for a few more Ks.
Would clean and adjust every tire change.
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130K mi. on mine now. Started chirpin' a while ago, but put some HD Polylube on it, and that worked pritty well.
Then I had some other work done that included a new fwd final drive pulley, and the chirp went away! no more Polylube.

Best wishes....Tim(HT)

 

70K miles on mine and I'm definitely not easy on it.

 

mines good for about one more season , then I'll be running a chain. broke a belt a long way from home once , that sucked enough to not want a repeat.
keep them adjusted and they can run 100,000 easy enough, but I've seen some pop at 20,000

 

I was looking things over the other day and noticed that the little adjusters on the rear axle are about maxed out. Has me a bit concerned as the bike only has 8300 miles on it. Will be discussing this with the dealer when I go in for the 10k service.

 

Count the teeth on your rear sprocket & than on the front. if someone swapped the front out to a smaller one, the belt might be too long for the configuration!
Hatch.

 

82K here and i ride it like it was stolen.