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As I’ve read up on the Boss Hoss I can’t find anyone that I said the belt failed in regular use. For heaven sake’s the thing is 1.7 inches wide. Also with a one speed or two speed transmission (newer OD isn’t needed until the highway, no stoplight to stoplight hard shifting, per se) there’s little/no shock when changing gears which would be a weak point potentially with that much torque.
In reality a belt drive has a lot of advantages, it may be because of compact engine design and such that we don’t see more belt drives on our performance bikes. Belts need a larger minimum diameter to wrap around, which could create a packaging issue with respect to the countershaft for example.
You need to remember they are mostly poser bikes. They get ridden to the Bar, revved to make noise, and ridden home. They're really not a performance bike. A member of a M/C website I belonged to raced a couple loud-mouth Boss Hoss owners with his stock ZX-12R. He easily pulled away from them no matter what the Boss Hoss owners tried.