In a message dated 2/23/04 6:00:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, REClassicBikes@aol.com writes: We (English speakers) call a freewheel a freeWHEEL, because it not a fixed WHEEL. Everybody knows you speak a different language in Great Britain. I will call my fixed gear bikes whatever I want. The queens English be damned. Didn't we fight a war in 1812 about this? Richard Borneman Havre de Grace, Md