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How To Service A Planetary Freecoaster

September 19, 2022

Want to see how you do maintenance on a Planetary Freecoaster?

The Nightrider Planetary Freecoaster completely changed the game for freecoasters, and you can tell how popular it is by the fact that so many brands have licensed the design for their own hub. You can now pick up a Planetary freecoaster from BSD, Alienation, 90East / Skapegoat, Premium, Colony BMX and Cult, with some using slightly different designs, but all basically using that same internal system. Here’s a video Nightrider put together completely disassembling the hub and then putting it back together step by step so you can easily do it on your own if you own the hub, or are considering picking one up.

Inside Look At The Free Night Planetary Freecoaster Hub

August 3, 2019

There has been some buzz about the new Free Night Planetary Freecoaster hub that is a new design that combines a freecoaster and a cassette hub into one hub so you can freecoast backward, but still get the same feel as a cassette when you’re pedaling forward without the slack and need to engage / disengage the hub. Brant Moore got his hands on one of the hubs to get an in-depth look at the hub and do some riding with it. Here’s a video where Brant disassembles the hub to give you an inside look at the hub. If you’re on the hunt for a new back hub and want to try something different, check this video out for a look at this guy.

You can also learn more about the hub on the Free Night website!

“This hub could change BMX freecoaster hubs FOREVER!
The internals of the Planetary Freecoaster from Free Night are similar to hubs weve seen before, but have one giant difference; planetary gearing.
This allows the hub to be a cassette when moving forward, then immediately go into freecoaster mode with NO disengagement.
This is completely unlike and other freecoaster hub available.” – Brant Moore

Inside the Freenight Planetary Coaster Hub – Internals Revealed

July 26, 2019

If you’re a product nerd, it has been an exciting time when it comes to hubs. As of late, we got a look at the long awaited Flybikes Magneto Cassette Hub and the new Eclat Seismic Hub that are making some big changes to the way cassette hubs work, now it looks like the Freenight Planetary Coaster Hub that has been in the works for quite some time now is available. This one is unique because it’s basically a freecoaster and a cassette hub in one utilizing a system that’s been used before, but modified to make it work much better. Here is a short video Night Rider BMX Shop put together giving you a look at the driver internals and just how it all works. After you check out the video, you can learn more about the hub over on the Freenight Website where they have photos, specs and details on the hub for you to get a look at.

“The long awaited Planetary Coaster internal parts.
This new and innovative hub allows you to enjoy a Cassette feeling while riding forward, and Freecoaster slack moving backwards.

Hi, and welcome to the inside of the freenight hub.
The freenight hub is a planetary coaster. To understand what it means, I’ll start by explaining the basic idea.

Let’s begin with the driver. Each pawl is kept down by a spring, and the driver engages when the pawls are lifted by a clutch disc. If you know your history, you might have seen this before. That idea was very nice and simple, but it had one major trouble – there was no control over the clutch disc.

This is where the planetary clutch comes to work.On the side that faces the driver, there is a clutch disc with ramps for each pawl. When moving forward, the ramps are always close to the pawls, so we get immediate engagement. Moving backwards, the ramps are always far away from the pawls, so it prevents unwanted engagement. In other words – moving forward you have minimal slack, and moving backwards you have maximum slack, it’s that simple.

There will be more videos explaining the inside of the clutch itself, and also tutorials for hub assembly, all coming soon.
For more details please visit our website www.freenightbmx.com or look for #freenightbmx on Instagram

Thank you for watching!” –

Nightrider X BSD – Night Session In Tel Aviv

April 1, 2019

Here’s a fresh video Night Rider BMX Shop put together from a session a bunch of the locals and some of the BSD crew caught at a park in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hit play to check out some of the highlights from the session. No shortage of grinds in this one!

Nightrider X Wethepeople – Alon Kosoy 2018 Video

March 23, 2018

Wethepeople dropped a new Alon Kosoy video for your viewing pleasure…

Here’s a new one from Wethepeople‘s connect over in Israel through NightRider BMX Shop, Alon Kosoy, going to work on street spots. Alon is a machine when it comes to grinds and there was no rail or ledge that was safe when he came across it. Add in a few heavy drops and gaps, and you have a video you won’t want to pass up. Hit play to check out what he stacked for clips!

“Israeli connect and street assassin Alon Kosy coming through with some raw street riding at it’s finest courtesy of our distribution NightRider BMX Shop.

Video by Bobi Spassov.”

Night Rider BMX Shop – Summer 2016 Mixtape

October 7, 2016

The Night Rider BMX Shop crew coming through with a fresh mixtape of footage some of the crew had collected over the course of the summer! Hit play to watch Fred Bernshtein, Lior Moskovich and Alon Kosoy put in work on the streets over in Israel! Awesome spots and dialed riding! You can’t go wrong with that combo. Enjoy!

“Filming: Fred,Boris,Tal Mazar, Alon
Edit: Itamar Bavli
Music:
The Alchemist – Za’atar Smoke
Jeronimo – End Of Our Time
Candiria – Blue Suede Timbs
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Sinister Purpose”

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Wethepeople X Nightrider – Alon Kosoy 100%

April 29, 2016

Wethepeople and Night Rider BMX Shop coming through with a fresh new Alon Kosoy video for your viewing pleasure! Watch as Alon puts his smooth style to work on the streets of Tel Aviv and shows that he isn’t scared to get back up from a crash to get a trick done!

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NightRider – Alon Kosoy 2016 Video

April 4, 2016

Here’s a fresh one from Alon Kosoy for Night Rider BMX Shop that just surfaced online. Watch as Alon goes to work on street spots around Tel Aviv, Israel and Barcelona, Spain putting his pegs to good use, along with his freecoaster. Real solid from start to finish. Check it!

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