Originally Posted by
Road Fan
You can't compare 25 g of something with 0.25 liters of something to see which is bigger, unless you also talk about the density (mass per unit of volume) of that something, in this case, glue.
Oldyellr, I wish what you said was true, I wouldn't have needed to go to school.
No, I was just approximating. While a millilitre of water weighs a gram, that much glue would be a bit less, maybe 0.7 grams.
In the metric system everything is very logical and orderly. (Doesn't the freezing point of water at 0° make more sense than 32° and the boiling point at 100° make more sense than 212°?) I spent my youth learning there are 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 220 yards in a furlong and 8 furlongs in a mile. In the metric system all you need to know is the meaning of prefixes like micro, milli, kilo, etc. Of course, I often have to convert those back to English to quantify them.
Of course, you might also say, "A pint's a pound the world around".
Actually, we who work with bikes have been exposed to the metric system longer than the average joe on the street.