Kilometres vs. MPH
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Kilometres vs. MPH
Heres a great cycling tip for everyone, reset you computers for metric. Having just finished a ride in the US where everyting is in miles, and coming from "the Great White North" where everything is in Kilometres. I feel I can make an observation:
Miles per Hour sucks when you are on a bike!!!!! I know is all in your head, but in Kilometres per Hour, things just go by faster, you go faster and you ride further! Try it!
Miles per Hour sucks when you are on a bike!!!!! I know is all in your head, but in Kilometres per Hour, things just go by faster, you go faster and you ride further! Try it!
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Yeah, I hope I am not offending all you Yanks (well, I'm a dual citizen myself - raised in Berkeley and Oakland during the 60's, living in Canada since the 70's) but I always wonder when the USA is going to join the rest of the world, which happens to be on the metric system. Holy cow, even the US military uses metric, why don't civilians?
Metric just makes way more sense on a bike. Most fit cyclists can cruise at 30 kmh. That's two minutes per kilometer. All velodromes are measured in metric (with the exception of a few in the USA, like Alpenrose in Oregon, which is 267 meters or so, which translates to exactly 6 laps to the mile, go figure... But all its track measurements are metric, anyway).
One liter of water weighs exactly one kilogram, and a regular size bottle holds 600 milliliters, so it weighs 600 grams. Far easier than trying to figure out that 16 fluid ounces of water equals one pound, sort of, and a standard bottle holds about 20 fluid ounces, so how much does a quart of water weigh? And a gallon of water weighs what, 8 pounds?
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, and it boils at 100 degrees Celsius. So you want to be careful when the temperature is around 0, and it will be really hot when it gets above 30 degrees. Where the hell does 100 degrees Fahrenheit come from?
Buying meat by the kilogram might seem really tricky, but most places sell it per 100 grams, so it's really easy to look at the per kilogram price and move the decimal point so you can compare the per 100 gram price.
My previous Subaru, built for the outside-USA market, didn't even have mph indicators on the metric speedometer, so any time I was in the USA, I'd have to do the speed conversion in my head so I didn't get a speeding ticket. It becomes second nature after a while. And it's cool driving down a freeway where the speed limit is 100. Distances in the US are too great for kilometers? Figure that you'll be averaging about 100 kmh. So if you have 575 kilometers to travel, it should take 5.75 hours. Way simpler than trying to figure out how long it will take to go 345 miles.
The US system is a holdover from when the USA was a British colony. It's called "The Imperial System," and the Imperial does not refer to the US Empire, folks. Time to join the rest of the world!
(Actually, I suspect it's the French influence that keeps Americans from embracing Metric. It wasn't invented in the USA, it was invented by Napoleon, and the official reference meter is kept in Paris, I think. And those useless wrenches denominated in Imperial, like 7/16ths or 5/32nds, they have rebranded as "SAE" (Society of Automotive Engineers). Metric wrenches (M4, M5, etc.) are just so much simpler...)
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Metric just makes way more sense on a bike. Most fit cyclists can cruise at 30 kmh. That's two minutes per kilometer. All velodromes are measured in metric (with the exception of a few in the USA, like Alpenrose in Oregon, which is 267 meters or so, which translates to exactly 6 laps to the mile, go figure... But all its track measurements are metric, anyway).
One liter of water weighs exactly one kilogram, and a regular size bottle holds 600 milliliters, so it weighs 600 grams. Far easier than trying to figure out that 16 fluid ounces of water equals one pound, sort of, and a standard bottle holds about 20 fluid ounces, so how much does a quart of water weigh? And a gallon of water weighs what, 8 pounds?
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, and it boils at 100 degrees Celsius. So you want to be careful when the temperature is around 0, and it will be really hot when it gets above 30 degrees. Where the hell does 100 degrees Fahrenheit come from?
Buying meat by the kilogram might seem really tricky, but most places sell it per 100 grams, so it's really easy to look at the per kilogram price and move the decimal point so you can compare the per 100 gram price.
My previous Subaru, built for the outside-USA market, didn't even have mph indicators on the metric speedometer, so any time I was in the USA, I'd have to do the speed conversion in my head so I didn't get a speeding ticket. It becomes second nature after a while. And it's cool driving down a freeway where the speed limit is 100. Distances in the US are too great for kilometers? Figure that you'll be averaging about 100 kmh. So if you have 575 kilometers to travel, it should take 5.75 hours. Way simpler than trying to figure out how long it will take to go 345 miles.
The US system is a holdover from when the USA was a British colony. It's called "The Imperial System," and the Imperial does not refer to the US Empire, folks. Time to join the rest of the world!
(Actually, I suspect it's the French influence that keeps Americans from embracing Metric. It wasn't invented in the USA, it was invented by Napoleon, and the official reference meter is kept in Paris, I think. And those useless wrenches denominated in Imperial, like 7/16ths or 5/32nds, they have rebranded as "SAE" (Society of Automotive Engineers). Metric wrenches (M4, M5, etc.) are just so much simpler...)
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Heres a great cycling tip for everyone, reset you computers for metric. Having just finished a ride in the US where everyting is in miles, and coming from "the Great White North" where everything is in Kilometres. I feel I can make an observation:
Miles per Hour sucks when you are on a bike!!!!! I know is all in your head, but in Kilometres per Hour, things just go by faster, you go faster and you ride further! Try it!
Miles per Hour sucks when you are on a bike!!!!! I know is all in your head, but in Kilometres per Hour, things just go by faster, you go faster and you ride further! Try it!
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Does this mean that your a dual citizen of both Berkley and Oakland? Is that allowed.
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In the thread "aretirement plans" Card, from Texas, says "We Yanks only "refined" English, and here in Texas, we have elevated English to an art form". Some of your fellow southerners are forsaking you.
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To me the real question is: "When is the US going to wake up to the fact that we're on the metric system?
Medications are metric, liquor is metric, cars are gradually converting to metric, grocery stores and the Home Depot are about 1/2 and 1/2. It looks to me like the only people who haven't figured it out yet are the law makers. They keep telling us that we're on the English system but today the English system is metric.
Medications are metric, liquor is metric, cars are gradually converting to metric, grocery stores and the Home Depot are about 1/2 and 1/2. It looks to me like the only people who haven't figured it out yet are the law makers. They keep telling us that we're on the English system but today the English system is metric.
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To me the real question is: "When is the US going to wake up to the fact that we're on the metric system?
Medications are metric, liquor is metric, cars are gradually converting to metric, grocery stores and the Home Depot are about 1/2 and 1/2. It looks to me like the only people who haven't figured it out yet are the law makers. They keep telling us that we're on the English system but today the English system is metric.
Medications are metric, liquor is metric, cars are gradually converting to metric, grocery stores and the Home Depot are about 1/2 and 1/2. It looks to me like the only people who haven't figured it out yet are the law makers. They keep telling us that we're on the English system but today the English system is metric.
So officially we are going metric but officially it doesn't matter if we don't.
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I'm a dual citizen myself - raised in Berkeley and Oakland during the 60's, living in Canada since the 70's.
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, and it boils at 100 degrees Celsius. So you want to be careful when the temperature is around 0, and it will be really hot when it gets above 30 degrees. Where the hell does 100 degrees Fahrenheit come from?
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, and it boils at 100 degrees Celsius. So you want to be careful when the temperature is around 0, and it will be really hot when it gets above 30 degrees. Where the hell does 100 degrees Fahrenheit come from?
But frankly I think that Fahrenheit is a much more "human" temperature scale than Celsius. After all, I can tell you from experience that 100F is "damned hot" and 0F is "damned cold"! So it's 33C across the river in Ontario now. What's that mean? Is 33 hot? And on the other side, it would be "below zero Celsius" in these parts for most of the winter, and I wouldn't get bragging rights for going out running in "sub-zero" temperatures like I can on the Fahrenheit scale.
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Yeah, I hope I am not offending all you Yanks (well, I'm a dual citizen myself - raised in Berkeley and Oakland during the 60's, living in Canada since the 70's) but I always wonder when the USA is going to join the rest of the world, which happens to be on the metric system. Holy cow, even the US military uses metric, why don't civilians?
Metric just makes way more sense on a bike. Most fit cyclists can cruise at 30 kmh. That's two minutes per kilometer. All velodromes are measured in metric (with the exception of a few in the USA, like Alpenrose in Oregon, which is 267 meters or so, which translates to exactly 6 laps to the mile, go figure... But all its track measurements are metric, anyway).
One liter of water weighs exactly one kilogram, and a regular size bottle holds 600 milliliters, so it weighs 600 grams. Far easier than trying to figure out that 16 fluid ounces of water equals one pound, sort of, and a standard bottle holds about 20 fluid ounces, so how much does a quart of water weigh? And a gallon of water weighs what, 8 pounds?
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, and it boils at 100 degrees Celsius. So you want to be careful when the temperature is around 0, and it will be really hot when it gets above 30 degrees. Where the hell does 100 degrees Fahrenheit come from?
Buying meat by the kilogram might seem really tricky, but most places sell it per 100 grams, so it's really easy to look at the per kilogram price and move the decimal point so you can compare the per 100 gram price.
My previous Subaru, built for the outside-USA market, didn't even have mph indicators on the metric speedometer, so any time I was in the USA, I'd have to do the speed conversion in my head so I didn't get a speeding ticket. It becomes second nature after a while. And it's cool driving down a freeway where the speed limit is 100. Distances in the US are too great for kilometers? Figure that you'll be averaging about 100 kmh. So if you have 575 kilometers to travel, it should take 5.75 hours. Way simpler than trying to figure out how long it will take to go 345 miles.
The US system is a holdover from when the USA was a British colony. It's called "The Imperial System," and the Imperial does not refer to the US Empire, folks. Time to join the rest of the world!
(Actually, I suspect it's the French influence that keeps Americans from embracing Metric. It wasn't invented in the USA, it was invented by Napoleon, and the official reference meter is kept in Paris, I think. And those useless wrenches denominated in Imperial, like 7/16ths or 5/32nds, they have rebranded as "SAE" (Society of Automotive Engineers). Metric wrenches (M4, M5, etc.) are just so much simpler...)
- L.
Metric just makes way more sense on a bike. Most fit cyclists can cruise at 30 kmh. That's two minutes per kilometer. All velodromes are measured in metric (with the exception of a few in the USA, like Alpenrose in Oregon, which is 267 meters or so, which translates to exactly 6 laps to the mile, go figure... But all its track measurements are metric, anyway).
One liter of water weighs exactly one kilogram, and a regular size bottle holds 600 milliliters, so it weighs 600 grams. Far easier than trying to figure out that 16 fluid ounces of water equals one pound, sort of, and a standard bottle holds about 20 fluid ounces, so how much does a quart of water weigh? And a gallon of water weighs what, 8 pounds?
Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius, and it boils at 100 degrees Celsius. So you want to be careful when the temperature is around 0, and it will be really hot when it gets above 30 degrees. Where the hell does 100 degrees Fahrenheit come from?
Buying meat by the kilogram might seem really tricky, but most places sell it per 100 grams, so it's really easy to look at the per kilogram price and move the decimal point so you can compare the per 100 gram price.
My previous Subaru, built for the outside-USA market, didn't even have mph indicators on the metric speedometer, so any time I was in the USA, I'd have to do the speed conversion in my head so I didn't get a speeding ticket. It becomes second nature after a while. And it's cool driving down a freeway where the speed limit is 100. Distances in the US are too great for kilometers? Figure that you'll be averaging about 100 kmh. So if you have 575 kilometers to travel, it should take 5.75 hours. Way simpler than trying to figure out how long it will take to go 345 miles.
The US system is a holdover from when the USA was a British colony. It's called "The Imperial System," and the Imperial does not refer to the US Empire, folks. Time to join the rest of the world!
(Actually, I suspect it's the French influence that keeps Americans from embracing Metric. It wasn't invented in the USA, it was invented by Napoleon, and the official reference meter is kept in Paris, I think. And those useless wrenches denominated in Imperial, like 7/16ths or 5/32nds, they have rebranded as "SAE" (Society of Automotive Engineers). Metric wrenches (M4, M5, etc.) are just so much simpler...)
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After reading "raised in Berkeley" and "living in Canada" my first thought was you are probably a Viet Nam era draft dodger. Hope you're not offended.
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A few observations:
1) The miles/km or mph/kph conversion is trivial, i.e., a 5:8 ratio comes within about 1/2 percent, and a 3:5 ratio is within 5 percent.
2) As bicycle enthusiasts, we have inherited the most screwed-up SAE-metric hybrid system ever invented. My favorite example is Italian BB threading: 24 threads per inch on a 36-mm diameter. Go figure! The derailleurs, brakes, and axles are all metric, but the ball bearings are in fractional inches, as are the ISO BB and handlebar stem sizings. You have to respect the French for trying to build all-metric bicycles, although they occasionally gave in on freewheel and pedal threads for U.S. export.
Ben Franklin, a Francophile, wanted the U.S. to make the Revolution complete by adopting the metric system, and we would have avoided years of costs and grief if the other Founding Fathers had listened to him.
I remember when my high school built a new swimming pool in the mid 1960s -- it was 25 yards x 25 meters, so that either metric or English unit competitions could be held.
1) The miles/km or mph/kph conversion is trivial, i.e., a 5:8 ratio comes within about 1/2 percent, and a 3:5 ratio is within 5 percent.
2) As bicycle enthusiasts, we have inherited the most screwed-up SAE-metric hybrid system ever invented. My favorite example is Italian BB threading: 24 threads per inch on a 36-mm diameter. Go figure! The derailleurs, brakes, and axles are all metric, but the ball bearings are in fractional inches, as are the ISO BB and handlebar stem sizings. You have to respect the French for trying to build all-metric bicycles, although they occasionally gave in on freewheel and pedal threads for U.S. export.
Ben Franklin, a Francophile, wanted the U.S. to make the Revolution complete by adopting the metric system, and we would have avoided years of costs and grief if the other Founding Fathers had listened to him.
I remember when my high school built a new swimming pool in the mid 1960s -- it was 25 yards x 25 meters, so that either metric or English unit competitions could be held.
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I remember reading about a very young Confederate general who, after the War of Northern Aggression, repatriated and worked his way up through the Army ranks all the way to general. He led some forces in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Everytime his forces drove the enemy back, He'd yell out "We got those damn Yankees on the run!", much to the chagrin of his Yankee soldiers.
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But back to metric. Just to be fair, I thought I should toss in some disadvantages to metric:
1. Once you switch to metric, it will be just like when Canada went metric about 30 years ago - the gas stations will gouge you on the conversion. If the price of gas was $4 per gallon, then instead of charging you $1 per liter (which is roughly the exchange), they will charge you $1.10 per liter, knowing you will never bother to do the math yourself. Trust me on that one...
2. Instead of miles per gallon (a rather simple concept to understand), you will have to learn a concept called "liters per 100 kilometers." No, they wouldn't take the simple way and do kilometers per liter. They do liters per 100 kilometers. 10 liters per 100 kilometers is about 25 miles per gallon. The lower the number, the better.
3. My kids were born after we went metric. Because they went thru the Canadian school system, they have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what feet, inches, miles, pounds, etc.are. But maybe that's a good thang.
And to John E., Ben Franklin is one of my few heroes. The greatest genius of his time, and the biggest reason the US has done so well up until the current Bush administration...(hey, my parents have been staunch Republicans, and even they've had enough of Dubya!) Too bad old Ben couldn't talk the rest of the founding fathers into going metric. And I agree, the bicycle is a real hodge-podge of international measurements. Italian bottom brackets? They're 36mm x 24 threads per inch. Steerer tubes come in 1-inch and 1 1/8 inch, but seat tubes are commonly 27.2mm. Pedals are 9/16" everywhere in the world, but you install them with a 15mm pedal wrench or a 6mm allen wrench, and all the bolts on a bike are M4, M5, or M6. Bicycles were obviously invented by a committee.
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The quality guys (and gals) at work are always talking about needing more metrics. There must be a hundred of them.
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Actually they do. A stone is around 14 pounds. This is OK, but the measurement is not accurate enough so someone may say "I weigh 10 3/4 stone". If I was in charge I would modify this to boulders, rocks and pebbles where 4 pebbles=1 rock, 4 rocks=1 boulder and 4 boulders=1 stone. The same flaw exists with temp measurement in celsius. 28 deg C. is much warmer than 26 but it doesn't sound like much.
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Yeah, I hope I am not offending all you Yanks (well, I'm a dual citizen myself - raised in Berkeley and Oakland during the 60's, living in Canada since the 70's) but I always wonder when the USA is going to join the rest of the world, which happens to be on the metric system. Holy cow, even the US military uses metric, why don't civilians?
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When will the USA convert to metric? My guess would be never. The old english system is just too entrenched. Americans hate changes in the "status quo". (witness the failure of the gold dollar coin a few years ago.) I remember a few gas stations in the 70s, adjusting their pumps to sell gas by the liter. The result? people stopped buying gas at those stations, and they quickly adjusted their pumps back.
Automobile manufacturers were able to market engine displacement in terms of Liters, instead of cubic inches, but that's about it. And even then, some "Manly Men" won't hear of that. They want their engines in cubic inches, and "not that commie metric crap". Hey don't laugh, I've heard it said.
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2. Instead of miles per gallon (a rather simple concept to understand), you will have to learn a concept called "liters per 100 kilometers." No, they wouldn't take the simple way and do kilometers per liter. They do liters per 100 kilometers. 10 liters per 100 kilometers is about 25 miles per gallon. The lower the number, the better.
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The trick to metric conversion is to get used to it and not convert. I have no idea what my mileage is in miles per gallon. When I am in Canada and hear that the temp is 25C I know that is very pleasant. When I am in the USA and hear it is 80F, I also know that is pleasant. Not sure which is warmer, but I don't care.