@@Heemiscold I’m from the Denver area so I suggest Pusher BMX. I know down in Colorado Springs there is Pedal Action BMX that is very good as well. Hope that can help.
I have the clutch and it's good. My first freecoaster was the alienation freecoaster and that was a good hub, especially the fact that you could adjust slack through the non driver side axle which made things easier
Fuck free coasters but the first one that had yet to break 3 years later is the revolution. I’ve busted so many brand new coasters with in a couple months and for the prices it hurts.
Love the education, just getting back into the sport myself after 20 plus years out of it! Working on a 2002 Mira restore and watching your videos to assist! ❤
Most people don't like freecoasters because they get that junky ones and it never works. I've had my shadow symbols for two-and-a-half years and I have not touched them.
The Odyssey reloader was so bad due to the clutch springs always breaking.instead of ball springs it had 2 s shaped flat springs inside the clutch cone that rubbed on the axle.The Poverty freecoaster from Dans Comp was a rebranded reloader hub.Ian Schwartz used to run a modified poverty freecoaster back in the day when he rode for Sunday bikes.
Remember tony hawks American wasteland? There were bikes you could ride , they worked like they had freecoasters. In like 2005. I remember telling my homies that it's going to happen nobody believed me. KHE had the first good FC like 3 years later.
The we the people hybrid and eclat shift hubs are also another evolution. It’s both a freecoaster and a full cassette when you want it to be. Also the design is super simple and basically maintenance free. My personal favorite.
they are 2 in 1 but not usable at the same time like planetary or z coaster. Cinema is currently working in another true hybrid different from planetary internals. Let's see if eclat design something with this new system.
Had the WTP hybrid for a year and mainly used it in freecoaster but once or twice used the cassette mode. After a year the hub is wrecked inside and almost impossible to tighten or loosen when removing the back wheel. Poor design and it has trouble engaging and pedalling as well as strange clunks and clicks randomly. If you are thinking of getting one don't, they advertise them as the greatest hub ever but really it isn't designed properly and won't last you very long if you ride hard. Wethepeople make some good products but the Hybrid hub is definitely not one of them
@@ethanw2805 idk man I’ve been riding it since it first came out and I ride pretty hard. I’ve personally never had a problem with it. Yea sometimes it skips but other than that it’s been solid. The insides still look really good on mine. Then again I would take it apart every once in a while to clean it up and apply a thin layer of grease on everything.
@@413fps yea but these hubs are meant for people who want to switch back and forth from regular freecoaster and regular cassette. Not for it to feel like a cassette but actually be a freecoaster. I actually like having that little bit of slack when I’m on a freecoaster but some people don’t hence why they made the planetary system. I would give it a try tho. Was actually thinking of trying alienations Venus planetary freecoaster as it’s the cheapest option with all the same internals as the more expensive ones like the cult hub or bsd hub.
The Cinema FX2 Garrett Reynolds signature Freecoaster hub is rubbish, it's good when new, but after 2 Months it will start shaking then the thread will damage, regular maintenance required. *The Primo Freecoaster hubs are good but they are heavy.
i hate that so many of the good bmx completes only come with freecoasters. I rode a coaster over 10 years ago and it was pretty cool, but I like pedalling back in a fakie. So I wanted a nice complete (100% chromo, dbl walled rims, etc) but with a cassette. I still have my coaster wheel somewhere.
still running my khe geisha was an absolute head ache but my own mods help home made bushings in the clutch an the cog. i like big gap for flatland tricks. but a proper working fc should have almost instant engagement when riding normal an u should have to back pedal to set a big gap {slack}
I just got back into bmx after a 10 year hiatus and gota freecoaster. Hate the slack. Took like 300 tries to fakie lol. My buddy has a "planetary" where theres like no slack. Pretty cool.
I remember when khe released the free coaster and I was so hyped to be able to fakie without backpedaling. I used to mess with my friends and call it a quiet cassette a.d would back pedal it and then boom, fakie without backpedaling. Blew there minds. Then a month later back pedaling on a free coaster and my hub self destructed. I vowed to never touch a free coaster again until I bought a back wheel for my bike and got a free coaster without realizing. So I was basically forced to ride it and now I can't ride cassette. I feel off balance when trying to fakie. I can't half cab over anything. The pedal pressure messes me up now that I learned to ride without it and without back pedaling
The fact it would lock up on me while rolling backwards ended it for me! I’m cassette rider 100% for life! I ride the Primo Mix cassette hub LHD 9T driver
the roller bearings they put in drivers for freecoaster allways crushed my Cinema FX2 freecoaster holds up well and I hear the BSD revolution hub is good aswell I’ve been told 👍🚲💨
I love the coaster it's awesome. I switched 5 years ago. We'll never go back to cassette. Not Disney Nikki sent but I have so much more fun on this Coster and I don't have to fit a faddle with petling back. Which just a new roll back trick and the tricks fill rat him. You don't have that control that you get from a cassette when it comes to feather in your Manuals👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 The tricks feels so much ratter on costers, and that's my opinion.💪💪💪
Imo which is fairly detailed for coasters. Phu is half right. Driver bearings but the angular contact bearing and bushing was another part of it. Odyssey kinda perfected the traditional style coaster. But we had some early slightly better cosster designs. Sesshins never made it to public but was a chosen design with mods the same as the shadow and ezra hubs. The ezra hub apparently being closest to the normal srock chosen design. Shadow and Sesshins versions being more modified for better performance.
Free Night made the planetary design. Now BSD, Alienation, Colony, Cult, and Premium offer a Planetary design based hub. Incase anyone was wondering. I’m sure more brands will start making them over time.
I wasted $250 on one. It kept engaging at unwanted times, and I never trusted it. Replaced it with the Odyssey v2 Clutch and it's been flawless and predictable for 2 years, and has never engaged unexpectedly even once.
@@AmazingChinaToday i got a venus hub a few weeks ago and i havent had any issues with it randomly engaging, it engages at weird times like rolling up transition and rolling back down to fakie, the hub will stay in cassette mode, but if u roll up the transition, hop to fakie, then it coasts. doing 180s/halfcabs, if you do a halfcab and ur wheel rolls backwards as your landing if you didnt rotate all the way, the hub will disengage and you have no pedal pressure. just a learning curve, same thing when i went from cassettes to freecoasters, u just gotta learn how it works and adapt,also 2 years ago were when they were brand new so they still had issues, the venus hub is my favorite hub ive ever had so far
@@darkxkai5754 Glad it's working for you, but to be clear, in your comments you describe it engaging at unwanted times while rolling backwards. My Odyssey Clutch has never done that even once in two years.
I'm really thinking about getting Sleepers complete. Love the look and seems to be a decent spect bike. Is it one that will last away for an intermediate bmx rider?
I agree, I changed my casette hub for a freecoaster and I regret my choice. When it's cold outside, the engagement make 3/4 tour sometimes complete tour to be able te pedal. A freecoaster suck !!
For the record, I still love freecoasters 😎
LOL
I wish I still had my freecoaster so much more fun
i still love my odyssey 2pc driver with 12t
My '82 Schwinn is a free coaster mag.
You suck. 😎😉
If you want to ride during night time hours, get a free coaster. That way you ride silently in stealthmode.
Proud to have been pushing freecoasters for over two decades #coloRADfreecoaster
Been rocking one since getting back on the bike 5 years ago. Also Colorado here as well
What’s a good bmx store in Colorado ?
@@Heemiscold I’m from the Denver area so I suggest Pusher BMX. I know down in Colorado Springs there is Pedal Action BMX that is very good as well. Hope that can help.
Did anyone make you a trophy yet?
Yo...that crash in the opening of this video was gnarly...hate to see that but still watched
Is bro alive????
@djabroni_brochacho4644 yeah that's begin back in the OSS days
brandon begin OSS video was sick @@insanetaco98
Yeah half calb EL TORO! BEEEAST MODE ACTIVATED
I knew it was coming so I looked away lol
I love my coaster. Not at a skill level to truly use it yet but alon the riding without the noise is great in my oppinion.
Yeah. The noise from those modern drivers goes right through me. Reminds me of the noise the clockwork owl from 'Jason and the Argonauts' makes.
Yeh i enjoy having a silent hub.
As a flatlander, I think it was the best thing to ever happen in freestyle. After Dorkin 4 anyway.
freecoaster for flatland, cassette for street, always!!!
Why is a free coaster good for flatland?
@@x88868free coaster is like required for some flatland tricks due to rolling backwards while standing on the pedals in weird positions.
@@bmxriderforlife1234 makes sense. Thank you.
The Odyssey Clutch freecoaster is flawless. A masterpiece of engineering.
I have the clutch and it's good. My first freecoaster was the alienation freecoaster and that was a good hub, especially the fact that you could adjust slack through the non driver side axle which made things easier
@@Taino-Photos The new Clutch v3 now has tool free slack adjustment. But I've been running factory default slack on the v2 without issues.
It makes sense for flatland. There are really good reasons we need it for flatland but yeah not as necessary for other types of riding.
That begin clip always gives me nightmares
Fuck free coasters but the first one that had yet to break 3 years later is the revolution. I’ve busted so many brand new coasters with in a couple months and for the prices it hurts.
I started riding 1998. The freecoaster was the best thing to ever happen to BMX. Doing dumb stair tricks like that is wrong lol
Love the education, just getting back into the sport myself after 20 plus years out of it! Working on a 2002 Mira restore and watching your videos to assist! ❤
how is the repair going🤔
Good! Just waiting to locate a few parts!
Glad I’m not the only one I’ve been out close to 20 and recently restored a old school dyno nsx and instantly the fire was lit
That landing was brutal.DAMN
“Most true bmx guys are using a freecoaster” 😂 maybe curb dudes in jncos. come ride some parks and trails out here on the east coast
I like my cassettes, I do a lot of cruising so it is what it is.
Most people don't like freecoasters because they get that junky ones and it never works. I've had my shadow symbols for two-and-a-half years and I have not touched them.
Sheesh, this guy needs to calm down. What a dork
Naw not that Brandon clip 😅
Cassette is where it’s at and it’s coming back in street just like metal pegs
yo metal pegs are epic
Bro freecoasters are fucking awesome.
Free coaster for life 😅😅
The Odyssey reloader was so bad due to the clutch springs always breaking.instead of ball springs it had 2 s shaped flat springs inside the clutch cone that rubbed on the axle.The Poverty freecoaster from Dans Comp was a rebranded reloader hub.Ian Schwartz used to run a modified poverty freecoaster back in the day when he rode for Sunday bikes.
My homie Bruce getting props! He can ride backwards better than I can forward.
ACS had a hub that had a coaster brake or a free wheel hub. Had to turn two knobs to engage/disengage it.
That was the original. I had one and loved it.
Remember tony hawks American wasteland? There were bikes you could ride , they worked like they had freecoasters. In like 2005. I remember telling my homies that it's going to happen nobody believed me. KHE had the first good FC like 3 years later.
For me I have always been a cassette person and I don’t think I wanna change it they are sooo fun
It has clickity clacks- Bender
The we the people hybrid and eclat shift hubs are also another evolution. It’s both a freecoaster and a full cassette when you want it to be. Also the design is super simple and basically maintenance free. My personal favorite.
they are 2 in 1 but not usable at the same time like planetary or z coaster. Cinema is currently working in another true hybrid different from planetary internals. Let's see if eclat design something with this new system.
100% Hybrid❤
Had the WTP hybrid for a year and mainly used it in freecoaster but once or twice used the cassette mode. After a year the hub is wrecked inside and almost impossible to tighten or loosen when removing the back wheel. Poor design and it has trouble engaging and pedalling as well as strange clunks and clicks randomly. If you are thinking of getting one don't, they advertise them as the greatest hub ever but really it isn't designed properly and won't last you very long if you ride hard. Wethepeople make some good products but the Hybrid hub is definitely not one of them
@@ethanw2805 idk man I’ve been riding it since it first came out and I ride pretty hard. I’ve personally never had a problem with it. Yea sometimes it skips but other than that it’s been solid. The insides still look really good on mine. Then again I would take it apart every once in a while to clean it up and apply a thin layer of grease on everything.
@@413fps yea but these hubs are meant for people who want to switch back and forth from regular freecoaster and regular cassette. Not for it to feel like a cassette but actually be a freecoaster. I actually like having that little bit of slack when I’m on a freecoaster but some people don’t hence why they made the planetary system. I would give it a try tho. Was actually thinking of trying alienations Venus planetary freecoaster as it’s the cheapest option with all the same internals as the more expensive ones like the cult hub or bsd hub.
I’m a cassette only guy. If the bike doesn’t sound like a money counter while I’m rolling down the street I don’t want it 😂
Big facts 💯 I love that sound big facts 💯
The Cinema FX2 Garrett Reynolds signature Freecoaster hub is rubbish, it's good when new, but after 2 Months it will start shaking then the thread will damage, regular maintenance required.
*The Primo Freecoaster hubs are good but they are heavy.
Cassette for life!
i hate that so many of the good bmx completes only come with freecoasters. I rode a coaster over 10 years ago and it was pretty cool, but I like pedalling back in a fakie. So I wanted a nice complete (100% chromo, dbl walled rims, etc) but with a cassette. I still have my coaster wheel somewhere.
What a compelling way to begin a video. Ten seconds in and we are hooked. I hope that young mans okay.
"Brandon begin" is his name, he's fine.
Has to be said... the worst thing to BMX is not wearing a helmet!
still running my khe geisha was an absolute head ache but my own mods help home made bushings in the clutch an the cog. i like big gap for flatland tricks. but a proper working fc should have almost instant engagement when riding normal an u should have to back pedal to set a big gap {slack}
I still hate coasters, wouldn't ride em, not to mention everyone I knows coasters are always breaking
UHHH GUYS!!! MY GUYS! YOU GUYS!!! OH YOU KNOW WHAT GUYS!! GUYS!!! I love this guy. x
Please tell me that kid that crashed is ok...
WEAR HELMETS!!
U killin it on the clickbait haha
Do they still lock or disengage or w/e and you would bang your knee on your stem? 😅😅 other than that I could see myself adopting it lol
I just got back into bmx after a 10 year hiatus and gota freecoaster. Hate the slack. Took like 300 tries to fakie lol. My buddy has a "planetary" where theres like no slack. Pretty cool.
So, as an old skool guy, riding a freecoaster is similar to riding brakeless?🤷🏽♂️🤔
I remember when khe released the free coaster and I was so hyped to be able to fakie without backpedaling. I used to mess with my friends and call it a quiet cassette a.d would back pedal it and then boom, fakie without backpedaling. Blew there minds. Then a month later back pedaling on a free coaster and my hub self destructed. I vowed to never touch a free coaster again until I bought a back wheel for my bike and got a free coaster without realizing. So I was basically forced to ride it and now I can't ride cassette. I feel off balance when trying to fakie. I can't half cab over anything. The pedal pressure messes me up now that I learned to ride without it and without back pedaling
Have we ever going to talk about the Epic shirt designs that have that awesome 80’s style?
I’ve been riding the same federal V2 freecoaster for over a decade. I have never blown out a freecoaster. This dude is dumb.
Phu, you just like showing the Begin clip! :D
Imagine Ratboy having a free coaster in his prime…
Say it ain’t so 😢
please give me frame to my wish to frame for play give me please my frame is not for tricks
"most true bmx riders"...that's not a true statement.
No way!!!
Freecoaster is for flatland……was invented for flatland.
Sometimes I switch to cassette to keep it fun but Freecoaster will always be my fav
The FREECOASTER HELPED ME AFTER I MESS UP MY KNEES ACL !! IM LOVIN IT I USE A SALTPLUS FREE..
Hybrids came from freecoaster.
Hybrids are the best.
I need a youtuber to break down technology like this in skateboarding. This guy is brilliant. he is so enthusiastic
Brilliant? This is gossip
This guy named ben degro does exactly that bro check out his vids he's dope
You need to try the planatry freecoaster instant engagement
I ride trails...not for me
Alot of things suck at first until perfective.
Pat was a pioneer on what could be done on a coaster. Dude would land backwards over box jumps. So good
It's not free at all. This should be called the cash flow coaster.
I just put a gyro on the back wheel
The fact it would lock up on me while rolling backwards ended it for me! I’m cassette rider 100% for life! I ride the Primo Mix cassette hub LHD 9T driver
I remember the ACS R.L Edge freecoaster. First I'd ever heard of. Total shit. Explosions and crashes and pain.
Just found this channel a couple days ago and Phu is phunny as phuck, love the content 👍
BTW what year did they fix the free coaster approx.
Phu is the bomb 💪🏼😤
Cassette vs Freecoaster is like .45 vs 9mm
What you talkin bout Phu? Odyssey cassettes blew up all the time, well the driver bearings always did.
Free coaster is only useful if you ride flatland
this guy doesn't flatland
Did i just watch someone die 0:01 ???
I refuse to stop running cassette hubs
the roller bearings they put in drivers for freecoaster allways crushed my Cinema FX2 freecoaster holds up well and I hear the BSD revolution hub is good aswell I’ve been told 👍🚲💨
Would u still recommend Cinema fx2 hub??
Phu is the best. This is why I watch this Chanel. Please keep these vids coming or Phu start your own channel for your shop
Yes SHOP OWNER is fun to watch no doubt✊
Bro just showed a dude die with no warning
Freecoasters were way before cassettes!
Y'all have free coasters now?!? Wtf😱🤯
I used to ride a s&m warpig with a nankai years ago. Holy f*k, just found Ur channel👍🏽
Nostalgia 💣
alf was right reloader
That forst clip hard to watch.
Freecoaster is easy mode.
everyone rides it now tho
I love the coaster it's awesome. I switched 5 years ago. We'll never go back to cassette. Not Disney Nikki sent but I have so much more fun on this Coster and I don't have to fit a faddle with petling back. Which just a new roll back trick and the tricks fill rat him. You don't have that control that you get from a cassette when it comes to feather in your Manuals👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 The tricks feels so much ratter on costers, and that's my opinion.💪💪💪
Imo which is fairly detailed for coasters. Phu is half right.
Driver bearings but the angular contact bearing and bushing was another part of it. Odyssey kinda perfected the traditional style coaster.
But we had some early slightly better cosster designs.
Sesshins never made it to public but was a chosen design with mods the same as the shadow and ezra hubs. The ezra hub apparently being closest to the normal srock chosen design. Shadow and Sesshins versions being more modified for better performance.
Ian Schwartz….
Free Night made the planetary design. Now BSD, Alienation, Colony, Cult, and Premium offer a Planetary design based hub. Incase anyone was wondering. I’m sure more brands will start making them over time.
I wasted $250 on one. It kept engaging at unwanted times, and I never trusted it. Replaced it with the Odyssey v2 Clutch and it's been flawless and predictable for 2 years, and has never engaged unexpectedly even once.
@@AmazingChinaToday i got a venus hub a few weeks ago and i havent had any issues with it randomly engaging, it engages at weird times like rolling up transition and rolling back down to fakie, the hub will stay in cassette mode, but if u roll up the transition, hop to fakie, then it coasts. doing 180s/halfcabs, if you do a halfcab and ur wheel rolls backwards as your landing if you didnt rotate all the way, the hub will disengage and you have no pedal pressure. just a learning curve, same thing when i went from cassettes to freecoasters, u just gotta learn how it works and adapt,also 2 years ago were when they were brand new so they still had issues, the venus hub is my favorite hub ive ever had so far
@@darkxkai5754 Glad it's working for you, but to be clear, in your comments you describe it engaging at unwanted times while rolling backwards. My Odyssey Clutch has never done that even once in two years.
Cinema is making one now but free night confirmed they are not using planetary internals, so it's probably even an improved design.
I'm so old I'm still on a cassette..I just pedal like fuck (and tall gearing helps).. love the fakie with pedaling tho it is limiting.
I get it now
I'm really thinking about getting Sleepers complete. Love the look and seems to be a decent spect bike. Is it one that will last away for an intermediate bmx rider?
I agree, I changed my casette hub for a freecoaster and I regret my choice. When it's cold outside, the engagement make 3/4 tour sometimes complete tour to be able te pedal. A freecoaster suck !!
Epic
Coaster came along way. And I've been along for the ride for 15 years.
I still have an Odyssey reloader laced up to a primo hula hoop. Never really had any serious problems with it, besides the slack not being consistent
Had to replace my axle and my clutch was donzo had to order those parts from sparkys I love coaster better then cassettes but anyways coaster nation
Can we get the history of bmx? Like how it came to be? Who were the pioneers of bmx, why was the bmx bike invented etc! 🤔
I had a free coaster back on my nike on 1997. Kink empire 1st edition.
I run front wheels on the front and back and I put my pegs on my seat and handlebars
Are you saying a freecoaster had something to do with that horrific slam at the beginning of the vid?
I honestly still use a simple old freewheel... I'm not a weight weenie that's why
i have a 29er gt performer and the crank is a 3 piece i belive and it’s a 19mm i want to ask if a ixf fits
I can shift gears on my top tube and still do a bar spin with my gyro brakes
I have regular shadow free Oster and that shit sucks... I need one
Freecoaster was before the casette