BMX - Coasting backward?

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skinnyland
06-29-07, 09:53 AM
Hey.
Never posted in BMX before.
Watched a vid ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YhbELKhqM4 ) where one guy (black bike) rides backward while his pedals remain still. What kind of hub is he using that allows this?

gnr rocker
06-29-07, 10:02 AM
freecoaster
cwt341
06-29-07, 10:25 AM
yep its a freecoaster

skinnyland
06-29-07, 10:28 AM
right on, thanks.
live4muzic2
06-29-07, 06:46 PM
you can make a freecoaster out of a coaster though if you want.
FitRider 921
06-29-07, 07:47 PM
You can make a ghetto freecoaster out of a coasterbrake if you would really like to, but it would be 3/8ths in the back, which isn't so good. But yes, the hub you described is a freecoaster which is used for flatland and for some creativity elsewhere.
minichamp31
06-30-07, 07:56 PM
You can make a ghetto freecoaster out of a coasterbrake if you would really like to, but it would be 3/8ths in the back, which isn't so good. But yes, the hub you described is a freecoaster which is used for flatland and for some creativity elsewhere.

I made a ghetto freecoaster. Sweeeet.
live4muzic2
06-30-07, 10:44 PM
i made one, dont ask me how cuz the pads are still in the hub.
KinetikBiker
07-01-07, 08:25 AM
I made a ghetto freecoaster. Sweeeet. Use it in motos, and jump triples backwards. You wont!
FitRider 921
07-01-07, 09:26 AM
I made a ghetto freecoaster. Sweeeet.
That's pretty sick. I always thought about doing that, but it's too much work to get it onto a 14mm rear axle.
eightdip
07-01-07, 02:00 PM
I don't have a coaster brake to make one
minichamp31
07-01-07, 02:36 PM
Use it in motos, and jump triples backwards. You wont!

Your right. I won't. That would be sick though.

And they're really easy to make. But the thing that sucks is there's sooo much slack and it hurts your knees when you smack them off the stem.
live4muzic2
07-01-07, 09:07 PM
Your right. I won't. That would be sick though.

And they're really easy to make. But the thing that sucks is there's sooo much slack and it hurts your knees when you smack them off the stem.

true, true.
FitRider 921
07-01-07, 09:30 PM
true, true.
Do you ever say anything insightful? Everything I've seen you say is always in agreement of something else. You never have anything different or well thought-out to say.
live4muzic2
07-02-07, 12:36 AM
Do you ever say anything insightful? Everything I've seen you say is always in agreement or something else. You never have anything different of well thought-out to say.
Sorry i would say somethong different but i don't want to give out bad info. Most the time someone else will say the exact same thing i would.
FitRider 921
07-02-07, 06:29 AM
If you don't have any information to post, that destroys the whole point of posting and the ideas of these forums. The point is to share information, so why post something when there is no information to post?
callumrides
07-02-07, 06:34 AM
i own a real one. and it bloody wobbles. there is play in the hub body. there is hell to pay for those bloody germans/tiawanese. im gonna get em.
eightdip
07-03-07, 01:32 PM
Which coaster have you got again?
FitRider 921
07-03-07, 02:08 PM
I believe he has a KHE Geisha street... but I may remember incorrectly.
callumrides
07-03-07, 05:53 PM
you are correct.
eightdip
07-04-07, 11:57 AM
How are the axels on yours? Do you run pegs?
callumrides
07-05-07, 01:24 AM
they are stubs. they suck. i hate them.

no i dont run pegs.
eightdip
07-05-07, 06:30 AM
Good, it's just that 1 of my friends bent his due to peg use and another snapped his