Meanings
- not comparableHaving ten gears.
plural ten-speeds
- A bicycle having ten gears.
Shops had waiting lists for customers wanting to buy Healing ten-speeds at $237. Morrison countered with the Olympus ten-speed, released in 1974, and the more upmarket Monark.
2004, Jonathan Kennett, Kennett Brothers, Ride: The Story of Cycling in New Zealand, page 65
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