I think I finally figured out how this thing works and it's kind of crazy
so by now
you're probably getting sick of videos about this hub but I promise that this one's going to be a little bit different and
kind of give a little more insight into the technology and how this thing actually
works in this video what we're going to be doing is
Completely taking everything out of the internals and taking even the entire axle out of this hub and put it back together
But without the hub shell, I'm sorry towel for making this video
but I know that a lot of people are going to get a lot of
Information out of this and I hope that it makes people that much more interested in the free night planetary freak coaster
So let's get into it before we actually take the axle apart and show this hub working without the hub shell on it
Let's take a look at the axle itself because I'm sure that you guys have seen at least one of my previous videos about this
Hub praising it for how amazing that it is
well
there's one thing that I would give criticism on for this hub and it's
Mainly something that a lot of people won't worry about and that is the hollow 14 millimeter axle
And it's the fact that it's hollow because for someone like me who's very back peg oriented
It's not a matter of if it's a matter of when this thing is going to bend and break if you take a closer look
here when I spin this axle, you'll see that it's actually
already slightly bent
After just one month of riding
But luckily the guys at free night were nice enough to send out a spare axle before this happened
So I have an axle
I'm going to be putting it in and I'm going to do a subsequent video where I'm
Going to use this and do an axle mod with it
So check that video out in one of the corners
If you haven't let's get this axle out of here and show you guys what the hub assembly looks like without the hub shell
Kameron one time I have not done this before. It just popped out perfectly. So as we can see here everything's out
Came out very nicely
We can set this aside
And I'm going to take off
the non-drive side
cone spacer so that I can go ahead and grab a bearing and put
It onto the drive side just so I don't have to beat this bearing out of the hub as well
so let's set aside our
drive side cone spacer
Pull off our bearing and now that I've got the bearing off of this side
I'm just going to take it and slide it right on to drive side next up
We're going to grab our clutch assembly because this is what goes against the bearing from here
We'll grab our spacer
This is what goes inside our clutch assembly
Next up we grab our driver
slide the driver on
and
Now we'll grab our jam nut
We'll tighten it against there and this will be a complete setup
without the hub shell
Okay, now we've got the jam nut on here
Everything is assembled and this is the part where I honestly have no idea what's going on
so I just have to play with it and see what
I see. So upon first taking this thing apart
It's very apparent that I had absolutely
No idea what was going on in here, and it would just take a certain amount of tinkering and kind of messing with things
To figure out how the internals of this hub work and upon first taking it apart
I kind of noticed that moving the driver forward and
Backward just allowed things to freely spin
so the first thing I want to do is take a look at what happens when you're
Pedaling this thing forward in order to do that
what we need to do is hold the axle in place and
Hold the clutch disc so we can control its motion and move the clutch disc forward at the exact same rate
we move the driver forward and as you can see this triangle piece here is
Engaging the pause and allowing them to go up and when it goes off of it, they go back down
So when we're moving both of them forward
It's hitting those in
engaging the pawls and I'm assuming that this is how the hub pedals forward and it engages the
ratcheting ring on the hub
so let's take a look at what happens when we back it off all the way against the other side of
The triangle piece that I was talking about and do the exact same thing
So that's where kind of the little tiniest bit of slack that you feel comes from
It's when it's all the way back on that other triangle piece and you go to pedal forward
It has to get rid of that and that's something that you only really feel
Whenever this hub is not moving and when you're just sitting on the ground messing with it that way
Because when it's coasting forward as you'll see here in a second that is not an issue
So let's talk about coasting now in order to replicate
Coasting what we need to do is hold the axle in place
Hold the clutch disc in place hold the driver in place
and the only thing that we want to change here is the clutch disc because when we're coasting
Obviously our axle net
And when we're coasting our driver is not moving because we're not pedaling forward or backwards
The only thing that's moving is the hub shell as the wheel moves forward and when hub shell moves
This clutch disk moves because it's held in place by the hub shell
So let's hold this hub shell
let's hold the driver and let's hold the clutch disc instead of the hub shell and we're just going to
Move it forward and as you can see when it's moving forward like this as long as it's moving forward
it's engaging the pause as
It's moving forward. It engages the pause but as soon as it's not
It's not engaging them anymore as soon as it stops moving forward
That's when it stops engaging these pause
So I'm not totally sure what any of that means yet
But it kind of makes sense and you can kind of gather
How it's making the cassette noises while it's moving forward
We got to keep moving forward to do this
so the next thing that we want to take a look at after showing the pedaling and the coasting is
Obviously the huge one what happens when this thing is faking
Let's completely reenact in abu-bakr to fakie from pedaling to it to the fakie
so first thing we need to do obviously as we've said axel doesn't move or
Holding a clutch disc as the hub shell would and we're holding the driver as if we have our feet on the pedals. We're
Pedaling at our Abubakr just like we would
The hub shell moves forward the driver moves forward we get close to the quarter pipe now
We're just coasting driver doesn't move hub shell moves
Keeps the pause engaged
So we get to the Abubakr
Everything stops. It's still engaged here. Let's move it forward just a little bit more so you can see it better
Now we land in our fakie driver doesn't move hub shell is the only thing that moves
backwards
Instantly those Pauls flip down and that's how we're free coasting we go from engaged
to disengaged instantly without having to do
anything
And I think that that's kind of how this hub works. I still don't totally understand it
But I think this gives a little bit better of an idea of what's going on in here. So we go from
we go from being engaged to
Disengaged and as we're faking the clutch disc is going this way
We're not pedaling backwards and you can see that this piece here the piece that engages the pause
Goes all the way against the other side
Now we are turning our fakie around. That means that we're not pedaling. We're not doing anything
We're doing a half cab and instantly going to coast again, so we turn our half cab around
boom hub shell moves forward instantly goes back into
Cassette mode where we're clicking the pause are engaged with the teeth on the ratcheting ring
this is some seriously amazing and
Crazy stuff that's going on with this hub think that showing this technology and showing how it works
Will get that many more people excited about it because it is truly amazing
Stuff that's going on here and it if it hasn't yet
It will completely change the fre coaster game
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