bike season over...

....anywhere from 25 - 35 cm of snow expected tomorrow.

That is 10 - 14 inches of snow for those of you who are metrically
challenged. :-D

Joe Canuck wrote:

...anywhere from 25 - 35 cm of snow expected tomorrow.

That is 10 - 14 inches of snow for those of you who are metrically
challenged. :-D


Thats a bit tough to bike through.
Metrically challenged? Well thats most Americans.

Ken
--
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the
human race. ~H.G. Wells

Ken M wrote:
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Metrically challenged? Well thats most Americans.


And not getting much better. The main highway between Tucson and
Nogales, Mexico is I-19 and for many years all of the mileage signs
were in km. That is now being changed back to miles. Of course it they
posted the speed limit in km we'd have every pick up in southern AZ
tipping over as they take a curve at 120 mph.

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Ken M wrote:
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Metrically challenged? Well thats most Americans.


And not getting much better. The main highway between Tucson and
Nogales, Mexico is I-19 and for many years all of the mileage signs
were in km. That is now being changed back to miles. Of course it they
posted the speed limit in km we'd have every pick up in southern AZ
tipping over as they take a curve at 120 mph.

It's not such a matter of being metrically challenged as it is just being
not used to things like kph in terms of a real feel. IMO, that is.

It's not such a matter of being metrically challenged as it is just being
not used to things like kph in terms of a real feel. IMO, that is.

My first trip to France, I made the mistake of recalibrating my bike
computer to metric. BIG mistake. I had no idea how fast I was really going,
and in the L'Etape du Tour, burned myself out hainging with guys climbing
moderate grades at speeds a bit higher than I should have. But what does
33km/hour mean to me? Wall-to-wall cyclists (closed roads), you just kinda
get sucked along. Plus you don't have a good feel for how far you've gone,
and the intuitive feel you get reading KMs is that you've gone further than
you actually have.

So now I ride with two computers, one set to KMs and the other to Miles. Not
that big a deal when they're both wireless and feed off the same
transmitter.

--Mike Jacoubowsky
Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReaction.com
Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA
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Ken M wrote:
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Metrically challenged? Well thats most Americans.


And not getting much better. The main highway between Tucson and
Nogales, Mexico is I-19 and for many years all of the mileage signs
were in km. That is now being changed back to miles. Of course it they
posted the speed limit in km we'd have every pick up in southern AZ
tipping over as they take a curve at 120 mph.

It's not such a matter of being metrically challenged as it is just being
not used to things like kph in terms of a real feel. IMO, that is.

Mike Jacoubowsky wrote:
It's not such a matter of being metrically challenged as it is just being
not used to things like kph in terms of a real feel. IMO, that is.

My first trip to France, I made the mistake of recalibrating my bike
computer to metric. BIG mistake. I had no idea how fast I was really going,
and in the L'Etape du Tour, burned myself out hainging with guys climbing
moderate grades at speeds a bit higher than I should have. But what does
33km/hour mean to me?

When I was on my Canada tour this summer, I put my computer to metric.
It worked out pretty well, as I could track the distance better with
the signage both in the cue sheet and on the road. That trip was more
about distance for me, though, not speed.

My husband kept his on miles, so I had a cross check. It kept both of
us busy, doing the multiplication back and forth.

Warm Regards,


Claire Petersky
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"Metrically challenged"?

Not if you've been working with bikes all your life. I sometimes have to
think a minute when imagining something measured in inches or feet.

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Roger Zoul wrote:

It's not such a matter of being metrically challenged as it is just being
not used to things like kph in terms of a real feel. IMO, that is.



Well I don't know that I would like to use the metric system for speed,
but when I was checking into new components for my bike, I measured the
weight of the current parts on my shipping scale which has a switch to
select either grams or ounces. Most parts have their weight in grams. So
now I have learned to convert grams to ounces and vise versa. I never
had to do THAT before. Or maybe I did and I don't remember.

Ken
--
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the
human race. ~H.G. Wells

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:53:27 -0500, Ken M wrote:

Most parts have their weight in grams. So
now I have learned to convert grams to ounces and vise versa. I never
had to do THAT before. Or maybe I did and I don't remember.

I've messed around converting kilos into ounces and ounces into grams.

Fahrenheit makes more sense to my senses but KmH sure looks better on
my cycloputer.

Repetitively working with lightweight material it's amazing how
precise our bodies are at consistently guesstimate weight. By picking
up a sheet of balsa wood I was able to accurately gauge its density in
pounds per cubic foot.
--
zk

Ken M wrote:
Roger Zoul wrote:

It's not such a matter of being metrically challenged as it is just
being not used to things like kph in terms of a real feel. IMO, that is.



Well I don't know that I would like to use the metric system for speed,
but when I was checking into new components for my bike, I measured the
weight of the current parts on my shipping scale which has a switch to
select either grams or ounces. Most parts have their weight in grams. So
now I have learned to convert grams to ounces and vise versa. I never
had to do THAT before. Or maybe I did and I don't remember.

It really comes down to, what your used to, speeds are easy, 16km/h =
10MPH, 10km/h = 6 1/4MPH from that you can figure out any number you
like. I am probably 3/4 metric now, for distance and speed, km and km/h
are more meaningful now, even though I learned "imperial" measure in
school. I still remember the ad slogan say goodnight to Fahrenheit,
when it was replace by Celsius here in Canada in the 1970's.

I had a photographic darkroom in the late 1970's and that was always
metric measure, but imperial temperature. These days about the only
thing I think of, in imperial, is weights at work, because the company
uses pounds instead of Kg, something that will eventually change, as
more people come from other countries, and children are taught metric
instead of imperial measure, will find it hard to understand. What is
interesting is some things are metric, even when you don't ask them to
be. For example, if I go to the deli, and ask for 1lb of ham, they may
have the price in pounds, but they will also have the price in kg or
often 100g increments, and that is the legal price, keyed into their
scale which is in 100g units.

I think the US will eventually go metric, but will probably take 10
times as long, it will cost 100 times as much, and require 1000 times
the number of Bureaucrats to implement.

W