Friction drive

n35 · Aug 5, 2011

Does friction drive wear out your rear tire faster?

happyvalley · Aug 5, 2011

In my experience not significantly faster if set up and used properly.

wayne z · Aug 5, 2011

That's been my experience too. A good FD is way easier to maintain and way more reliable. Quiet too, never realised how much noise chains made until I tried FD.
Tires prolly wear out a little earlier maybe, but tires are cheap and the work is easy.

donutguy · Aug 6, 2011

Set it up so the friction roller is 100 percent perpendicular to the tire and you'll have no problems. I rotate my tires every 500 miles to even out the wear and I have close to 2000 miles on my current set of tires.

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