this is the free night planetary mountain bike free coaster both a cassette or free coaster
hub depending upon which direction you're going and it very well could change freestyle mountain
bike hubs forever let's get into it so as you just heard the hub inside this box could change
freestyle mountain bike hubs forever let's not waste any time and get right on into it opening up
the box so we cannot go back again for anyone not familiar with my youtube channel because this is a
mountain bike geared video i make bmx videos and i made a whole host of videos about this concept
of hub in the freestyle bmx world now we're moving to the mountain bike world we've got
a top-down camera checking things out we've got a box and then we've got oh the box that i've seen
so many times this is the free night planetary coaster mountain bike edition and here we
go oh we're gonna get rid of that oh boy remove that box out of the way
this right here is the free night planetary mountain bike free coaster interesting action that
we're seeing here and i'll show you guys exactly what that means with the bmx version so if you've
never heard of the planetary clutch internals of the free knight planetary free coaster the way
that it literally works is that you can have your wheel moving forward his setting which is setting
forward and then immediately coast backward with no disengagement no back pedaling no anything
then when you go back to coasting forward it goes straight back into cassette and you can literally
crank it forward immediately go to fakie back forward and you can hear that it is literally
switching itself from a cassette to a free coaster instantly purely based on what's going on and i
have a ton of other videos about this specific hub and then a couple that have come after it in the
playlist in this info card right here if you want to learn more about it but this video is focused
on this one right here this hub has a 135 millimeter spacing which i'm told is very
common and let's give you a closer look here as you can see it says free night prototype you can
also see that a disc brake can be bolted on here for use with disc brakes it's got an 11 tooth
driver and i know that you guys don't care about the outside what we're here for is the inside
it does look good on the outside though don't get me wrong i just know why you guys are here you can
see the flanges here it's got a female axle here as you can see with that 135 millimeter spacing
as well as 17 millimeter hex bolts that go in and eight millimeter allens that go in there and to
take this thing apart which yes we are going to do for you guys because if you haven't seen the
bmx version you may not have seen this concept before like i said i've covered it extensively
but we're going to take it apart for you guys so we've got another cone spacer bolt thing here and
then we've got a spot for a 10 millimeter allen which i have here with the shout out to park tool
allen wrench set we're going to take this thing apart there we go loosen up the cone spacer
take this off of the female axel and then we can just slide our driver off here and this is where
you get a first look at the free knight planetary clutch system that's inside these hubs so you can
see when you look close at the driver here that the pawls are actually springing downward there's
three of them there there's a seal here and then we've got our planetary clutch which i think
yep all we have to do is tap it to get it to come out here
the adapter for it is cnc machined into the hub shell itself and then within this right here
is where the magic happens i've showed this in previous videos but i'll show it to you guys
right now just so you can kind of get a glimpse of how this works we've got a metal spacer here
that we take out of the clutch assembly then we've got the wedge or triangle piece as i've
called it in the past then we've got the actual planetary gearing assembly here which you guys
can see the little planetary gears and when i spin the outer part here you can see
the inner gears spinning this is what spins this part and the way that this works inside the hub
is that when the hub is spinning it is pushing these wedges up against the pawls lifting them
up so that it can be in a cassette mode and when you pedal it the pawls are there pushing the hub
forward as a cassette would but then as soon as you go backwards it spins the wedge backwards
and then that immediately drops the pause and that puts it into a free coaster mode so you don't have
to think about this whatsoever you're just riding the hub and riding the bike and doing these things
and i'm not going to pretend like i know about the mountain bike world whatsoever i don't know how
many people are out there that are interested in the free coaster hubs that are available but what
i do know is that i see a ton of guys at ray's mountain bike park my local indoor skate park here
in ohio riding the kink bowl riding the different bmx areas on dirt jumper mountain bikes and other
types of mountain bikes and i see some of them doing fakies i see some people with the profile z
coaster and i know that as soon as they get their hands on one of these or see one of these
with the disc brake option available for their bike made for their bike they're going to be
all over it because when you move forward in the trails and doing any kind of trail riding
or trail jumping dirt jumping or anything like that the slack that comes with a conventional
free coaster hub can definitely mess with you and this hub gets rid of it entirely this thing
has no slack when moving forward and unlimited slack when moving backward there's another
key point here in that your feet can move around and literally i'm not sure if you're gonna be able
to see it here if we're gonna have to show it in an example of one on my bike but when this
thing is coasting you can literally pedal it's already going forward but you can literally
pedal it forward all the way up until the speed that you're actually moving backward or that the
wheel is moving so if you pedal it faster than the wheels moving it's going to engage like that
so that means you can move your feet around while you're faking and not have to worry about it
engaging to give you guys a bit of a visual here with this exact hub let's pedal it forward you
can see the driver is propelling the hub forward right now now let's pretend like we're coasting
you can hear it cassetting and to go to fakie all you got to do is literally just go to fakie
and no disengagement or anything and it's free coasting then back forward you're back in cassette
mode and you can go back and forth just like that and check out what happens whenever you rotate
this hub shell so we're going counter clockwise but the driver is going clockwise then we switch
and they go backwards of each other and that is the very nature of planetary gearing so i kind
of explained it already but that kind of shows you what's actually going on in here you spin it
one way and the other part spins the other way you spin it the opposite way and the other part spins
the opposite way i'm not sure what other options are available out there for mountain bikes with
disc brakes and a free coaster at the same time so if there are other options let me know in the
comments down below but let me know if you guys have seen this for the bmx world and if you're
excited about it coming to the mountain bike world i'm genuinely excited for the potential
of it and i hope that you guys are as well on that note i want to give a huge thank you to
tal and free knight for trusting me once again to talk about one of their hubs and bring it to
the masses in hopes that it might catch on the way that it has been in the bmx world so thank
you for watching this i hope that you guys are intrigued by this and want to learn some more if
you guys want to learn more about this hub there is a video playlist on the screen right now that
you guys can click on to check out more videos about this thing i've got a ton of them and uh
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