I think a few of us are showing our age. Yes, 10-speed bikes did in fact have ten speeds or two x five back in the day. They all did. If you must dismiss the "10-speed" then you'd better throw out the "mountain bike" as well. It's just a dumb term because so many people use it these days to describe just about any bike that has dirt tires of a given width. Which, by the way, were once referred to as "knobbies".