Metric? Or, standard?
 

Hello,

When you cyclists go for rides, what unit of measurement do you use?
Kilometers or miles?

Personally, for me, kilometers are much easier to comprehend because
the units are always divisible by ten. For example, when you've biked
a Kilometer, you know that you've gone 1000 meters.

Go metric,
Cullen
Appleton, WI

Metric? Or, standard?
 

Cullen Carter wrote:

When you go for rides, what unit of measurement do you use?
Kilometers or miles?

For me, kilometers are much easier to comprehend because the units
are always divisible by ten. For example, when you've biked a
Kilometer, you know that you've gone 1000 meters.

With road signs and other markers, using the same units is convenient,
so I use miles in regions where they are commonly used and kilometers
where they are the local units.

I let the cyclometer do the required arithmetic for averages and
totals. I'm not interested in keeping a log nook of my
"accomplishments" but rather write a report of what I saw and
experienced.

Typical:

http://www.trentobike.org/Countries/...r_of_the_Alps/

http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Recreat...erraSpring.htm

Jobst Brandt

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On Oct 8, 5:30*pm, wrote:
Cullen Carter wrote:
When you go for rides, what unit of measurement do you use?
Kilometers or miles?
For me, kilometers are much easier to comprehend because the units
are always divisible by ten. *For example, when you've biked a
Kilometer, you know that you've gone 1000 meters.

With road signs and other markers, using the same units is convenient,
so I use miles in regions where they are commonly used and kilometers
where they are the local units.

I let the cyclometer do the required arithmetic for averages and
totals. *I'm not interested in keeping a log nook of my
"accomplishments" but rather write a report of what I saw and
experienced.

Typical:

*http://www.trentobike.org/Countries/.../Tour_of_the_A....

*http://www.bicyclinglife.com/Recreat...erraSpring.htm

Jobst Brandt

Jobst, I think your accomplishments do shine through your reports, not
least your observational accomplishments; I never seem to see the
amount of flora and fauna you report!

On the topic, I always set my odometer and record in miles, but have
no better reason to offer than force of habit.

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wrote:
Hello,

When you cyclists go for rides, what unit of measurement do you use?
Kilometers or miles?


"When in Rome ..... "

--
*****************************
Chuck Anderson • Boulder, CO
http://www.CycleTourist.com
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.
***********************************

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On Oct 8, 4:56*pm, " wrote:
Hello,

When you cyclists go for rides, what unit of measurement do you use?
Kilometers or miles?

Personally, for me, kilometers are much easier to comprehend because
the units are always divisible by ten. For example, when you've biked
a Kilometer, you know that you've gone 1000 meters.

Go metric,
Cullen
Appleton, WI

Despite my thinking that the metric system is so much more logical and
easier to convert distances, I for some reason always use miles.

Eric

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When you cyclists go for rides, what unit of measurement do you use?
Kilometers or miles?

Calories!
--
mac the naïf

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On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:50:36 -0700 (PDT), bluezfolk
wrote:

On Oct 8, 4:56*pm, " wrote:
Hello,

When you cyclists go for rides, what unit of measurement do you use?
Kilometers or miles?

When in Rome.......etc.

Metric? Or, standard?
 

On Oct 8, 5:56*pm, " wrote:
Hello,

When you cyclists go for rides, what unit of measurement do you use?
Kilometers or miles?

Personally, for me, kilometers are much easier to comprehend because
the units are always divisible by ten. For example, when you've biked
a Kilometer, you know that you've gone 1000 meters.

Go metric,
Cullen
Appleton, WI

Local measurements, to use local signs.
Then log on http://www.bikejournal.com/ and http://www.plus3network.com/

Metric? Or, standard?