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Examples
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You see kids here hauling three, four times their body weight, going 15 miles an hour on some beaten-up one-speed bicycle.
Occupying Kandahar Anne Jolis 2011
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He's had the one-speed Redline Freestyle for 22 years, ever since he was 12.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Last Comic Riding (A Bike) Nancy Ruhling 2011
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A one-speed Huffy fat-tired cruiser bicycle with playing cards in the spokes, yes.
Is Robert Gibbs allowed to give test[i]monials like this? | RedState 2010
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I could feel my hands on the rubber grips on the handlebars as I swung my leg over the seat and rode that bike right out of the shop, pedaling really fast—not like on the one-speed, little-kid, hand-me-down bike from my brother.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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He's had the one-speed Redline Freestyle for 22 years, ever since he was 12.
Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Last Comic Riding (A Bike) Nancy Ruhling 2011
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I could feel my hands on the rubber grips on the handlebars as I swung my leg over the seat and rode that bike right out of the shop, pedaling really fast—not like on the one-speed, little-kid, hand-me-down bike from my brother.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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"This economy is looking less two-speedish by the day; more one-speed, and that speed is fast," Mr. Roberts said.
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Insistence on a one-speed Europe might, only might, prove to be a feasible political policy.
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They're best navigated by bicycle, so at the Sea Lion Inn, which faces the jetty, we pay about $1.75 each for all-day rental of one-speed uprights.
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Which isn't terrible for a practical and not hideous steel one-speed.
No Money Mo Problems: Involuntary Collabos BikeSnobNYC 2008
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