Originally Posted by
frankenmike
Alot of the BMXers who come in to the shop like the profile flatland specific hub-freewheel combo. If you don't pedal, they coast, but if you pedal forwards or backwards, they engage. Kind of like fixed, but with the option to coast for certain tricks.
I think you are trying to describe a frecoaster, which just means you can coast forwards and backwards, but you can't like pedal and go backwards like a fixed gear.
And yeah there has always been flatland guys that run fixed, it's just a different flavor like guys that run no brakes and stuff.