@tel that is so funny. i read it over and over again and the more i read it the more confused i feel.
It's like he used to have a bike with a rear 5 speed cassette so someone told him the inner chain ring on the front is 5 gears and with the outer makes 10... Inner 5, outer 10.
He's nwo applying that to a bike with an 8 speed cassette, his logic being the outer front is means "a 10" plus the 8 on the rear cassette means it's an 18.
I dunno, obviously the poor chap's very confused, he can't even spell his own name correctly. =(
i might ask him a question for the lulz