My kid just started using a pedal bike for the first time today. She is so experienced on the strider bike that she can go pretty fast. When she accidentally engaged the coaster brake she almost wiped out. This video has saved my family a great deal of road rash. I would be thrilled to send the $30 I was about to spend on Woom's freewheel, to you or a charity of your choice.
You could if your offer is still good, on meetup.com is the group Bikeways for Fremont. A lot of my volunteers are members of that group. They have a funding link. Thank you for your offer.
Brother, thank you. This was such a big help. I thought all you had to do was take the arm off. At least that's what they told us when we were kids..never knew about bending the tabs down.. Awesome.Thanks again💪🙏
The brake arm is fixed with high torque which is a problem. If you did get it off, you would want to replace it with a similar width washer. Or you could cut it off, it would probably use up one cutting wheel, or a hack saw blade. That's why I made this video. BTW, I didn't like existing videos of the same subject.
I don’t know why the government tells bike manufacturers they have to install coaster brakes on kids bikes they’re so counterintuitive and slow down your child figuring out how to ride a bike. I’ll be disabling my son’s coaster brake and installing a hand brake tomorrow, thank you!!
We just bought a bike for our 5 year old that we thought would be free wheel because it has hand brakes. Nope, it's coaster brake too. We already know he can squeeze hand brakes (he rides a little electric motorcycle like a champ) so this other guy's concerns are not relevant.
So in summary, you found one 5 yr old child that can squeeze a hand brake & thus applied that ability to all bike riding children of all sizes & ages on planet earth, declaring the concern moot due to your huge sample size. F in brilliant.
With children you will allow them to ride in age appropriate areas and locations. That's your role as parent. Hand brakes come in child sizes, and better brake levers have a set screw to reduce the gap. Cheap brakes use cheap cables, housing, and poorly routed cables that add friction and make it difficult to squeeze the brake lever. What is the solution? Oddly enough, John Forester figured this out. Even with cheap brakes, you can increase the ease of use by replacing cheap cable with stainless steel cable, and replacing unsleeved brake housing with slippery brake housing. Improving the cable routing so that it is straighter is important. The result is that even cheap brakes with slippery cable housing greatly eases small hands braking.
Yes mostly bc the arm is fixed with a lot of torque. If it was easy to unscrew I would. It's not when I tried so I gave up. You don't want to spend too much time on it.
Yes it does until it gets jammed or if a finger or toe gets caught in it. It becomes a painful lesson in lacerations or injury. I don't think it is worth the risk.
My kid just started using a pedal bike for the first time today. She is so experienced on the strider bike that she can go pretty fast. When she accidentally engaged the coaster brake she almost wiped out. This video has saved my family a great deal of road rash. I would be thrilled to send the $30 I was about to spend on Woom's freewheel, to you or a charity of your choice.
You could if your offer is still good, on meetup.com is the group Bikeways for Fremont. A lot of my volunteers are members of that group. They have a funding link. Thank you for your offer.
Brother, thank you. This was such a big help. I thought all you had to do was take the arm off. At least that's what they told us when we were kids..never knew about bending the tabs down.. Awesome.Thanks again💪🙏
The brake arm is fixed with high torque which is a problem. If you did get it off, you would want to replace it with a similar width washer. Or you could cut it off, it would probably use up one cutting wheel, or a hack saw blade. That's why I made this video. BTW, I didn't like existing videos of the same subject.
I don’t know why the government tells bike manufacturers they have to install coaster brakes on kids bikes they’re so counterintuitive and slow down your child figuring out how to ride a bike. I’ll be disabling my son’s coaster brake and installing a hand brake tomorrow, thank you!!
Small hands can't squeeze hand brakes
We just bought a bike for our 5 year old that we thought would be free wheel because it has hand brakes. Nope, it's coaster brake too.
We already know he can squeeze hand brakes (he rides a little electric motorcycle like a champ) so this other guy's concerns are not relevant.
So in summary, you found one 5 yr old child that can squeeze a hand brake & thus applied that ability to all bike riding children of all sizes & ages on planet earth, declaring the concern moot due to your huge sample size. F in brilliant.
With children you will allow them to ride in age appropriate areas and locations. That's your role as parent. Hand brakes come in child sizes, and better brake levers have a set screw to reduce the gap. Cheap brakes use cheap cables, housing, and poorly routed cables that add friction and make it difficult to squeeze the brake lever. What is the solution? Oddly enough, John Forester figured this out. Even with cheap brakes, you can increase the ease of use by replacing cheap cable with stainless steel cable, and replacing unsleeved brake housing with slippery brake housing. Improving the cable routing so that it is straighter is important. The result is that even cheap brakes with slippery cable housing greatly eases small hands braking.
@@brianreeds5380 dude 4 and up is when you learn to pedal. If your kid can't squeeze a hand brake he can't even grab a fork😅
I imagine you still need to secure the coaster break lever to the frame ?
I reattached the lever arm after performing this operation, and it all works flawlessly.
Yes mostly bc the arm is fixed with a lot of torque. If it was easy to unscrew I would. It's not when I tried so I gave up. You don't want to spend too much time on it.
In Europe these things are on every dang bike
Just removing the brackets from coaster arm turns it into freewheel right
Yes it does until it gets jammed or if a finger or toe gets caught in it. It becomes a painful lesson in lacerations or injury. I don't think it is worth the risk.
Why are the brake shoes reinstalled if it's a freewheel ?
Just in case you want to convert it back again. Also so you know where the brake shoes are if you need them.
So u don't need the brake shoes?
So u don't need the brake shoes?
So u don't need the brake shoes?
Why would anyone modify a coaster brake to freewheel? It seems stupid idea.
Coaster brake on a motorized bicycle going 25 mph or more is dangerous