00:06so this is my old bike I'm gonna make it my street slash park winter bike and I'm
00:13gonna run it brakeless with a free coaster hub thanks to Fionite BMX for hooking me up with
00:26this insane hub I can't wait to try it out but first of all I'm gonna strip this one off
00:31the
00:31brakes I got some super nice Michelin pilot pump tires that I'm gonna try out and then just put
00:36on my some of my old parts on the bike and see how it feels yeah let's start
01:03so the bike is finally built up and I think it looks pretty sick I'm gonna go to various amounts
01:09of skate parks and try out the hub and also just try out my street skills yeah I will give
01:15you a
01:15review later hopefully it's sick
01:26capital bike park today trying out the free coaster doing a lot of fakies and a lot of fakies
01:53stuff with my cassette and the brake but it's so different with the free coaster because when
01:58you land backwards you actually gain speed so it feels super street and super real I kind of want
02:03to step that trick up on the spine low maybe the bar spin in it but yeah it's scary in
02:08the beginning
02:08and this feels like a totally different bike because it is but yeah it feels hard and scary
02:15hard
03:10So the hub I think it's working like this like when you go forward it's like a normal cassette
03:14and the slack it's actually not that bad I'm gonna do a full review later in this video but until
03:21now I'm super stoked on how it works and I had high expectations for this hub but there is exceeded
03:28fully
03:29so stoked
03:39so another park another bike yeah it's gonna be fun to try it out and this park is a bit
03:44street oriented
03:45or actually not it has kind of everything yeah I'm gonna start this session by doing some street riding
03:50180 freaky stuff just try out the free coaster
04:06I actually noticed that I can pedal forwards while going backwards so I'm gonna try out to do that and
04:13there yeah it's kind of hard to be honest
04:37so I think the moonwalk thing looks pretty cool but it's actually super hard to keep the balance while
04:43pedaling forward anyway I'm gonna try out the boxyampline now maybe do some cool stuff and see how the free
04:51coaster feels in the air
04:52I don't know
04:53I just want you to lean on a lot Stop bitch
05:07so you can get some good stuff Hey
05:34Okay box jumps definitely worked, it's worked, but I wanna try the ball
05:39now and also do some tail taps. It was super hard when I had to brake this bike, because
05:45you had the slack and no brake to adjust, but I think it will be possible now, so let's
05:51try out the ball.
06:17Okay, I guess tail tap works. Okay, so we're at the last spot of the video, at the dome.
06:22I'm gonna try the free coaster hub in the air, doing some bigger tricks.
06:49I kind of feel like some tricks are faster, like bar spins, because when you do the bar
06:54spins you actually move the feet of it.
06:56It makes it a bit faster to adjust, and also on turn-offs, because you move the cranks
07:01a bit, it goes super fast to snap it in, and I really feel that.
07:05But on the down side, on the big guns, I don't have that much crankstopper on now, so when
07:10I land, actually it feels like the feet aren't on the pedal, because it weighs down, so I might
07:17need to get more crankstopper, and yeah, I think it will be better then.
07:34To summarize these days, trying out the hub, I have been thinking about some stuff before
07:40trying it, and then during, and also now after riding it a couple of months, and the first
07:45thing I was worried about before was the slack, like how was it going to impact my riding, could
07:50I do tail taps with it, could I even ride without thinking about it all the time.
07:54To my surprise the slack wasn't that big, and I was worried about like riding, when you ride
08:01chainless, and you forget about that you don't have a chain, then you just pedal and fly over
08:05your bars, or hit your knee in the stem or something, and it's the worst thing ever, and that never
08:10happened to me on the bike, and I'm super stoked on that.
08:14Also with the tail taps, as you saw in the video, I did it in the skate park, with the
08:18bike with the brake, and that actually worked good, because you could land, pinch your brake,
08:23and then just pedal in, but with a brakeless bike, it was super hard, like I think I would
08:29have needed to like ride it for a long time before being able to do tail taps.
08:32So the next thing I was thinking about was the engagement, I was a bit worried that it was
08:37going to engage in the wrong situations, like doing huge 180s and stuff, and land, and then just
08:43not be aware of the pedalling backwards, but it never really happened while doing those kind of
08:48stuff. I did notice that it engages when I did like, let's say bar spin to fakies, because then I
08:54jumped up, and then when you do the bar spin you actually move the feet of it forward, and then
08:58it
08:58did some engaging while landing backwards, and also on some truck drivers to fakies and stuff, because
09:04you move your feet that much, but never on like 180 bars and other stuff like that. So yeah, I
09:13really
09:13trust the engagement, like it's super good tuned. There could be some small adjustments to it, but
09:19overall it feels really nice. So the next thing I was worried about was actually riding bigger jumps.
09:29As you saw, I tried it out at the dome, and it was actually easier in some ways, because you
09:34didn't
09:34have any resistance on the cranks, so some tricks like turn downs feels like you can snap them in
09:40faster because you don't pedal backwards and it's just way more smooth. The one thing I noticed though
09:45was that when I did tail whip to bar spins and like no further tricks, I couldn't really feel when
09:51my feet was on the pedals again, because there was no resistance. It felt like my feet was just dropping
09:59through the pedal and like I couldn't really feel it. But when I put on a like harder crankstopper,
10:05it felt better again. So if you're at a free coaster and want to do big jumps, I recommend to
10:10put on a heavy crankstopper. I think a really cool bonus with this hub is that the Moonwalk thing you
10:16saw in the video that you can pedal forwards as long as you pedal slower than you're going backwards,
10:23if that makes sense. That's pretty cool and I think you can do some really cool maneuvers with that if
10:29you want. The only downside I really noticed with the hub was when I changed the gearing to a heavier
10:34one,
10:35because then the hub engages differently. It just goes super like engages faster and it doesn't work
10:41that good in fakies as well because it has like minimum slack. That's if you have a super heavy gearing
10:48and when I ride park I'm not in need of that and also I think I could ride all the
10:53slopestar contests
10:54with a good gearing that that the hub will work with. But yeah, I don't know if you can do
10:59anything
10:59about it really, like because you need to have the slack somehow. Other than that, I just want to say
11:04thank you Freenight BMX for hooking me up with this hub. It was really really fun to try it and
11:10it gives
11:11the riding a bit more creativity. Thank you for watching!
11:23Okay, that wasn't. That's fun!
