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@tallsam
go on, revert to the mean version. I missed that.
(To me) I still think Single Speed means bikes with only one gear despite most ppl referring to freewheel SS's as 'Single Speed' (regardless of what Sheldon says). Thats ok though ppl refer to things differently all the time (it doesn't mean one way is wrong or the other - I was just pointing this out when you corrected duffbatye).
Look at how popular it is to refer to Fixed Wheel bikes as Fixed Gear nowadays. Fine if you live in North America but we don't. This site is even named incorrectly (geographically speaking - it should be londonfwss.com). Although some would argue that fixed gear refers to freewheel SS's too as the bike cannot change gear, hence fixed in that gear (Buffalo Bill for one, not I though ).
Nomenclature is awesome.