pic: Team 148 - 2011 - Raptor

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by Bochek

Now I must ask, where does your hatred of chain come from? Honestly The only time i have ever had problems is when it is very very poorly tensioned.

-Bochek

You hit a point in design where you almost get bored, and you have to go further and try new things.

Chain is functional, 148's goals are higher than achieving functionality. There were some benefits (some may say they're small, I disagree) to this design over chain and they designed for that. I imagine never having to break chain, tension chain, deal with chain growing, etc. are pretty nice. I would imagine their goal is to keep making cool, great performing stuff, while never having to do repair or maintenance.