FREE COASTERとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

freecoaster (複数形 freecoasters)

1. A type of hub that allows a bicycle to move backwards without the pedals moving backwards.
   • 2008 September 7, Fraggle, “Freecoasting hub thoughts”, in rec.sport.unicycling, Usenet:

     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.

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

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

   • 2017, Bryan Reynolds, Intermedial Theater, →ISBN:

     The invention of urethane wheels enabled skateboarding on variable terrain (concrete, wood, plastic, かつ 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 (かつ thus landing) backward as well as forward without the crank arms turning along with the wheels.