words cannot express how excited i am for what's inside this box right now you guys already know
because you saw the title and thumbnail of this video and this is another entry in the new bike
build series but it's a little different because it's also a product overview on something that
i've been waiting to get my hands on and see for months now we've been working on this
and let's not delay it any further so top down camera let's get the unboxing and my
first reactions to this thing because i couldn't be more excited legitimately could not be more
excited for this and while we're opening this and also just the cliffhanger you guys here
i helped with the actual design of this bike park that we're about to see so uh let's open it
and get straight into it oh here we go i got a glimpse oh it's in bubble wrap as you guys
can see from the top down oh my goodness oh my goodness get rid of the box grab the rag
here we go i think it's in something oh let's make sure we get a good shot of
this baby this right here is the alienation venus hub this is a planetary free coaster internal
and assuming that for some of you at least this might be your first encounter with the planetary
gearing system inside one of these free coaster hubs so with that i wanted to give you guys a
visual representation of how that planetary gearing clutch system works inside these hubs
to make them both a cassette and a free coaster at the same time so when you're moving forward
this thing is a cassette you will hear it clicking and you will have that instant pedal pressure
but as soon as you ran fakie with it it is a free coaster and you're coasting backwards
and the beauty of it is you don't have to think about it or do anything to get it from one to
the other and i will show you right now so you're gonna see when we pedal this forward
there is no slack to get rid of we just pedal it forward and you can see we go back and forward
and that pedal pressure is there instantly and you can also pedal it forward hear it to setting
you can also see that i did not disengage this hub but watch what i do here i stop the wheel
and spin it backwards without doing anything and there is infinite slack with this hub so
much so that you can literally pedal it forward while you're free coasting that is crazy and
then you turn your fakie around or do whatever you're going to do to end up going forward again
and you'll see instantly it goes back into cassette mode without doing anything
you heard it start clicking again and the coolest part of this is that after you
do that with a normal free coaster you'd have that slack to get rid of but watch when i pedal
here instantly it is there and that is the beauty of the planetary gearing clutch system that is
inside these hubs and that is why i love it so much you don't have to think about it whatsoever
you just ride your bike you go to fakie you got a coaster you end up forward you've got a cassette
and it is amazing so that's a quick rundown on how these hubs actually work i helped design this
hub from the hub shell i helped out with the design from there inspiration wise and i also
named this hub so this is the next bmx hub in the planetary free coaster lineup that has been coming
out first we had the free knight planetary then the bsd now we have the alienation venus venus
because venus actually spins backwards in relation to the rest of the planets and i have some very
very in-depth videos on the original free knight planetary free coaster and the playlist is up in
the info card right here so you can check those ones out for all of the testing of the original
hub but to give a little rundown on the hub here so we've got a nine tooth driver planetary free
coaster system here and there are both drive and non-drive side hub guards available that slot
right onto the hardware and there's also going to be two different color options available for this
one in the obvious polished that we have right here as well as black i'm super stoked on this
and some of you may have realized why i polished my front hub now you can also see that the a l n
is cnc machined into the hub shell so that when you spin it you get a little aln action here this
hub shell is cnc machined i believe and it is beautiful venus and this hub shell go together
so well then the fact that venus spins backwards this free coaster goes backwards this is the first
time that i've worked this closely on a product in bmx i've actually never worked with someone
on a product in bmx before and i've been along for this journey from the very beginning on this one
and it just looks beautiful there's also some updated information here but before
we get to that we should probably take a look at the internals on this one don't you think
not yet we're gonna save that for a video that is coming very soon comparing the alienation venus
the bsd revolution as well as the free knight planetary free coaster but a couple keynotes here
there's some changes on the inside to the o-rings that will be applied to all of them let's just
spin this thing now so there's not a ton to say here because this is another planetary free
coaster there's no physical changes to the inside that are specific to this it's just got a bad ass
hub shell on it and that's pretty much the point of it to offer one of these that looks really
really cool with a badass name and it comes from alienation they had the rush free coaster which
was a staple from alienation for years and years and so many people ran that free coaster now we've
got the venus to keep the information flowing here it's got two bearings on the inside the shell is
made of six series aluminum and it's going to be available in right or left hand drive and it
is in production right now and it could also be available as a complete wheel with the vandal rim
from alienation with dt spokes long brass nipples and it is going to be awesome so i gotta give a
big shout out and thank you to zach taylor at alienation for involving me with this process
when i found out that alienation was thinking about making a planetary free coaster i had
to get involved as much as i possibly could it's got the same six millimeter internal drilled out
axle as the previous up from eight millimeters on the original free knight planetary so that is
stronger there and i've had no issues with my bsd so i'm not worried about this one
other than that i think that'll about do it we'll take another look just because we can at this hub
and for everyone following the new bike build this is the rear hub on my new bike i think this is
gonna look good with the polished hub that i did in the front with this in the rear i think so but
let me know in the comments down below because i'm curious to hear you guys thoughts there's a few
of you who may have messaged me knowing this was coming but the majority of you should be surprised
by this one and i hope that you love it as much as i do being that i actually got to be involved with
the entire process of designing this thing from the very beginning all the way to the hub that
i have in my hands i want to thank you guys for being here and watching thanks again to alienation
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hit the playlist over here to check out the rest of the new bike build series thank you
again for watching and uh hopefully we'll see you tomorrow for another one goodbye