Originally Posted by
y0x8
Also a good bike! Is "single speed" a single (freewheel)?
Urgently rearrange the fixed gear and you will plunge into a completely different world!
Yes, single speed refers to a bike with no gears and a freewheel.
The term is used like the term "freewheel". The pawl mechanism in a cassette hub turns it into any engineer's definition of a freewheel but in the bike world, that freewheeling hub is always called a cassette hub and "freewheel" always refers to the screw-on assembly. Likewise, yes, fix gears have only one single gear (or the hub can be flipped or if you are me, additional chainlines added) but in our cycling world, fix gears are never called single speeds.