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No way, Jared. If she was just your girlfriend, I would definitely say after that, man, you need
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to put a ring on it. But she was already the wife. That's the highest promotion she could have
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achieved. But that's awesome. She's a keeper. She bought you a kink switch, man. That is sick
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You're going to love it. That's so exciting. Hey, okay. So Richard is a 34-year-old guy
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He's getting back into BMX and he's running a cassette, but he's thinking about a free coaster
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Any cons? He wants the planetary. So Richard, this is really good. First of all
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any of you guys in the chat who have experience with free coasters and are over 30 chime in here
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and let Richard know what you think what your personal thoughts are on this situation because
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I love free coasters I love the idea of going backwards without pedaling I think that's amazing
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it opens up the door for a lot of tricks half cab tricks you know things like that I cannot stand
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the slack and what I mean by slack Richard is when you a normal free coaster when you pedal forward
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It's got slack and while that slack is happening you're pedaling but the wheels not actually moving
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So sometimes you'll pedal really hard and your knee will hit the stem now you'll get used to it
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but when you're doing that pedaling and cranking in the slack you're turning out the clutch which is allowing the cassette to engage but
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I can stand that because I just like to have that instant engagement Manual 180s I like to crank a little bit on the 180 things like that And I can really get used to that I don like it But the planetary doesn have the slack
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So that's something that you're really, you're bypassing. And I would run a planetary well
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way before a free coaster. So con wise, the only con I can think of
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is that as soon as you start rolling backwards on a planetary
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like as soon as that thing starts moving backwards, you don't really have pedal pressure
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So let's say you go a tire tap, most people alley-oop a little bit, pedal pressure, and
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then drop back in. If you're on a planetary free coaster, you go to tire tap and that wheel moves just a
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little bit that way, you're not going to have any pedal pressure to save it. Same thing with a half cab, you're rolling backwards, you can't pedal pressure to half cap
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So there's a handful of different things there that you won't get, but I don't think
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there's too many cons, especially with a planetary. So just that channel says free coasters require more maintenance and cost a lot more
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That's a really good point, especially like the clutch V2. But again, if you're getting the planetary, from what I understand, there's not that much
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maintenance with the planetary system because it's a really, it's a, what is it
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It's a fine like gear system almost that catches. And then when the slacks off, it's just like this where a clutch, you've got to grease it
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and you've got the balls that hold the, is it the clutch
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I don't know. Anyway, I don't think there's that much, but I could be wrong. Could be totally wrong
