Posted by Hans-Christian Becker on August 14, 2008, 7:36 am
>I've x-posted this to ukrm, because it's an interesting point. Does
>anyone on ukrm use metric measurements for motorcycle matters, and if
>so what?
I brought my bike with me from the States, so the odometer and speedo
are in miles. Fuel consumption is at its very most 1 l / 10 miles, so
there I use a mix of units.
Otherwise my main reason[1] for using imperial measurements is to annoy
my metric co-workers. Works every time, as does writing dates MM/DD/YY.
Did I mention I am a team-player? <g>
[1] Though in my line of work it is quite handy to know that the speed
of light is 1 ns / foot and about 80 ps per inch ...
--
Dr. Hans-Christian Becker
'96 VN750 SM5TLH KG6POK
Uppsala, Sweden
Posted by TOG@Toil on August 14, 2008, 6:58 am
On 14 Aug, 12:36, h...@fki030.fki.uu.se (Hans-Christian Becker) wrote:
> >I've x-posted this to ukrm, because it's an interesting point. Does
> >anyone on ukrm use metric measurements for motorcycle matters, and if
> >so what?
> I brought my bike with me from the States, so the odometer and speedo
> are in miles. Fuel consumption is at its very most 1 l / 10 miles, so
> there I use a mix of units.
> Otherwise my main reason[1] for using imperial measurements is to annoy
> my metric co-workers. Works every time, as does writing dates MM/DD/YY.
> Did I mention I am a team-player? <g>
> [1] Though in my line of work it is quite handy to know that the speed
> of light is 1 ns / foot and about 80 ps per inch ...
At this point it seems fair to introduce you to the Sheddi. They have
some excellent measurements.
http://www.uk-rec-sheds.org.uk/faq60.txt
Posted by platypus on August 14, 2008, 7:04 am
TOG@Toil wrote:
> On 14 Aug, 12:36, h...@fki030.fki.uu.se (Hans-Christian Becker) wrote:
>> In article
>>
>>> I've x-posted this to ukrm, because it's an interesting point. Does
>>> anyone on ukrm use metric measurements for motorcycle matters, and
>>> if so what?
>>
>> I brought my bike with me from the States, so the odometer and speedo
>> are in miles. Fuel consumption is at its very most 1 l / 10 miles, so
>> there I use a mix of units.
>> Otherwise my main reason[1] for using imperial measurements is to
>> annoy
>> my metric co-workers. Works every time, as does writing dates
>> MM/DD/YY.
>> Did I mention I am a team-player? <g>
>>
>> [1] Though in my line of work it is quite handy to know that the
>> speed
>> of light is 1 ns / foot and about 80 ps per inch ...
>>
>
> At this point it seems fair to introduce you to the Sheddi. They have
> some excellent measurements.
>
> http://www.uk-rec-sheds.org.uk/faq60.txt
"desperate measures"
Posted by Richard Robinson on August 14, 2008, 7:23 am
platypus said:
> TOG@Toil wrote:
>> On 14 Aug, 12:36, h...@fki030.fki.uu.se (Hans-Christian Becker) wrote:
>>>> I've x-posted this to ukrm, because it's an interesting point. Does
>>>> anyone on ukrm use metric measurements for motorcycle matters, and if
>>>> so what?
>>>
>>> I brought my bike with me from the States, so the odometer and speedo
>>> are in miles. Fuel consumption is at its very most 1 l / 10 miles, so
>>> there I use a mix of units. Otherwise my main reason[1] for using
>>> imperial measurements is to annoy my metric co-workers. Works every
>>> time, as does writing dates MM/DD/YY. Did I mention I am a team-player?
>>> <g>
>>>
>>> [1] Though in my line of work it is quite handy to know that the speed
>>> of light is 1 ns / foot and about 80 ps per inch ...
>>>
>>
>> At this point it seems fair to introduce you to the Sheddi. They have
>> some excellent measurements.
>>
>> http://www.uk-rec-sheds.org.uk/faq60.txt
> "desperate measures"
I've got a barn, and I'm not afraid to use it.
Mutually Assured Decifortnights ?
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html
Posted by zymurgy on August 18, 2008, 11:02 am
> platypus said:
> > TOG@Toil wrote:
> >> On 14 Aug, 12:36, h...@fki030.fki.uu.se (Hans-Christian Becker) wrote:
> >>>> I've x-posted this to ukrm, because it's an interesting point. Does
> >>>> anyone on ukrm use metric measurements for motorcycle matters, and if
> >>>> so what?
> >>> I brought my bike with me from the States, so the odometer and speedo
> >>> are in miles. Fuel consumption is at its very most 1 l / 10 miles, so
> >>> there I use a mix of units. Otherwise my main reason[1] for using
> >>> imperial measurements is to annoy my metric co-workers. Works every
> >>> time, as does writing dates MM/DD/YY. Did I mention I am a team-player?
> >>> <g>
> >>> [1] Though in my line of work it is quite handy to know that the speed
> >>> of light is 1 ns / foot and about 80 ps per inch ...
> >> At this point it seems fair to introduce you to the Sheddi. They have
> >> some excellent measurements.
> >>http://www.uk-rec-sheds.org.uk/faq60.txt
> > "desperate measures"
> I've got a barn, and I'm not afraid to use it.
> Mutually Assured Decifortnights ?
Heh, Almost. VAX-VMS (a largely defunct mainframe OS [1]) used
Microfortnights as an internal counter.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/microfortnight
HTH
Paul.
[1] Awaits VAX user ji-had.
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>anyone on ukrm use metric measurements for motorcycle matters, and if
>so what?