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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 must be bored and actually did ask him to clarify. Response below, it's perfectly clear to me now (I suggested that the 8 speed cassette perhaps meant it had 16 speeds):

"listen its 18 speed take it or leave it.
or learn maths 8 + 10 = 16 em not.
8 + 10+ 18 fact. and i know for sure that every chain wheel on a crank adds 5 gears so 3 chain wheels is 15 gears. so please get your facts right ."