There's also coaster brakes, which are also applied by pedaling backwards. These are let's say an "add on" to a bicycle which through a combination of levers and gears engages a braking pad to a surface if you pedal backwards.
If you go down a hill and keep your pedals still, do you keep rolling? I'm assuming yes and that'd mean you have a freewheel but also a coaster brake, it's not an usual combination.
If you were on a fixie, going downhill your pedals would rotate like mad because there's no freewheel. You get direct feedback from the rear wheel turning to the cranks and vice versa, because there is no mechanism in there to just let it spin.
It doesn’t go slower, it stops immediately
this would also point to a coaster brake unless you have some really mad watt bazookas sticking on your torso
Ah okay.
There's also coaster brakes, which are also applied by pedaling backwards. These are let's say an "add on" to a bicycle which through a combination of levers and gears engages a braking pad to a surface if you pedal backwards.
If you go down a hill and keep your pedals still, do you keep rolling? I'm assuming yes and that'd mean you have a freewheel but also a coaster brake, it's not an usual combination.
If you were on a fixie, going downhill your pedals would rotate like mad because there's no freewheel. You get direct feedback from the rear wheel turning to the cranks and vice versa, because there is no mechanism in there to just let it spin.
this would also point to a coaster brake unless you have some really mad watt bazookas sticking on your torso