
After watching a number of videos, I decided that I needed a freecoaster hub, rolling backwards without having to backpedal seemed like it could be pretty cool. Used mostly in flatland, freecoasters seem to have made more of a presence in street lately, with 14mm axles and big sealed bearings, it opens a whole new bag of tricks. For my wheel I decided to go with the KHE Reverse, there are a whole bunch of options with this hub, left hand drive, right hand drive, a choice between 14mm and 3/8 axles, and depending on availability a bunch of colorways. Since I originally wrote this review there have been a couple updated versions by KHE, like the Geisha Lite, and the Reverse ACB, a number of other companies also produce there own, but many use the KHE internals. All of the KHE hubs have slack adjustment springs which allow you to customize this engagement to your liking, I found the engagement on the reverse to be faster than that on the Geisha out of the box. I've ridden both the Reverse and the Geisha, and found for my needs riding primarily street and parks that the reverse is the hub for me, the Geisha might be better suited for flatland, but I like the big axle and the faster engagement on the Reverse. So far I have been pretty happy with my hub, I"ve added a couple of slack adjustment washers and replaced the bearings in the driver which wore out pretty quickly, an issue KHE claims to have solved with the Reverse ACB. So get one and go ride your bike backwards!