freecoaster

plural freecoasters

1. A type of hub that allows a bicycle to move backwards without the pedals moving backwards.

   The V3 freecoaster has been upgraded to incorporate a thrust bearing which makes it a lot smoother when coasting and engaging.

   2013 July 30, Mark Sutton, “New Federal BMX website now live”, in Bike Biz

   2 more examples

   With a typical freecoaster hub, if you are coasting backwards on it and you pedal forwards, it will engage and cause you to pedal backwards.

   2008 September 7, Fraggle, “Freecoasting hub thoughts”, in rec.sport.unicycling (Usenet)

   The invention of urethane wheels enabled skateboarding on variable terrain (concrete, wood, plastic, and metal) with increase traction and less friction; the reinvention (brought back from the eighteenth century) and popularization of non-unidirectional twin tip skis enabled skiing backward and forward with equal competence; and the invention of the freecoaster rear bicycle hub enabled rolling (and thus landing) backward as well as forward without the crank arms turning along with the wheels.

   2017, Bryan Reynolds, Intermedial Theater, →ISBN