i’m just curious. why do people discuss distances and weights in both metric and imperial? i don’t understand how people discuss weights of wheels in grams, and then the overall bike weight in pounds and ounces, and then do the same with distances - riding at 38km an hour and then running 5:45 miles. what gives? is it all just to be obtuse?
The US is more or less the only major country that still uses the imperial system. Even the British who invented it now use metric as does your northern neighbor Canada.
The only measurement in imperial that I still prefer is when I order a pint in a pub. There is no metric equivalent.
cerevloguy, I would strongly disagree. A pint is fine and I would not turn one away, but a liter of excellent beer, now that can’t be beat.
If I become president my first action will be to switch the US to the metric system.
Yes get with the times Seppo’s! G
Height sounds better in imperial…most people I know in Oz still state their height this way. Everything else has to go!
Even the British who invented it now use metric
not really
pints are still imperial, people give their weights in stone, driving is done in mph, and there is great popular disdain over having to bow to “europe” and advertise metric weights in the markets.
"there is great popular disdain over having to bow to “europe”
That sounds so typically British. Reminds me of the time when I lived in England for two years - the newspaper weather report read “Fog over English Channel - Europe Isolated”
Canada is stuck at half way point between two systems.
As an immigrant to Canada I have to agree with this article:
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Michael_Platt/2004/03/25/394493.html
Save your energy, man, as weights and measures are all hopelessly skcrewed up (FUBAR, know that one?).
For example, did you know that a brand-new Shimano DA-equipped 10-speed (or would that be 20 speeds?!) bike with an Asian-made frame (let’s say from a country that is fully metric) is full of components, threads, and standards that are BOTH metric and American/Imperial? Some are one, some are the other! Explain that one! (Actually, the reason is history and tradition…)
Good article. The metric system is more logical since it’s all in multiples of ten, but I can think speed in kph but still think of height/wt in imperial. Still haven’t mastered C temps.
yes, exactly
and that’s why I love them!
I hope they never change
say no to bland homogeneity!
“Fog over English Channel - Europe Isolated”
heh heh
Scottish newspaper front-page headline after the Titanic sank:
“Aberdeen Man Feared Lost At Sea!”
& why not you are allowed to call yourselfs Canadian or American, why must we be called European? The British Isles are precisely that “Islands”!