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@H-Bomb
Urgh, I hate freewheel so fucking much, I have to get a new hub asap.
I just cycled back to London, and it felt so wrong. It took me about 10 minutes to get over the instinctive resistance to coasting, but I hate the fact I can't just let the pedals push my legs, hardly applying any pressure, but keeping the same speed, instead just accelerating and decelerating, and ending up doing a sort of half coast where I pedal slower than the wheel, but not coasting either. Also I felt a complete lack of control, which just ended up with me going slower.
Once I get my new hub I am never riding freewheel again if I can avoid it.