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unusual facts about Ten Speed


Ten Speed

Road bicycle - 10-speed is a 1970s American term describing road racing bicycles (using a derailleur) with 10 total gearing combinations, or speeds.



see also

Flatulist

Jim Dawson; Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart (Ten Speed Press, 1999)

Giardiasis

Kathleen Meyer, How to Shit in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art, Ten Speed Press (1989).

Ten Speed Press

Ten Speed's all-time best-seller is What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles which was first published in 1972 and as of 2009 has sold more than ten million copies and exists in 20 languages.

Tricycle Press was the children's imprint of Ten Speed Press, which has published the controversial children's book King & King and the Amelia series with American Girl.