Re: Weird

I find a similar disconnection in distancing when I read about travel on the European continent where people record their distance in miles where every "inch" is in kilometres. On my annual European tour I reset my computer into kms on the morning I leave home and it stays that way till I get back home. ( and why can I only have a 24 hour clock on the metric setting? All my digital display time pieces run on a 24 hour setting!)

I look at lots of the out of date touring info on the CTC website and cannot understand why these are nearly always in miles and mph when travelling in Europe. When you are sitting in the middle of France at a 5 lane rural junction you just don't think in miles!

On a satisfaction basis, it is also just a tad more ego building, in my 70th year, to cycle 2500 kilometres rather than 1562 miles! :-)


It always seem just that distances are longer when I get back home! It's all in the mind but.................

I am long retired now but I spent my working life as a communications design engineer working in metric units -- and also carrying around in my head lots of "Imperial to Metric" conversion constants.

I am quite amazed locally when I hear local "yoofs" still talking about "ten bobs" which disappeared long, long before they were born! There is actually a sort of sub-culture here which still thinks it is a "mining community" which died some 30 years ago. It results in all sorts of startling misconceptions which reaches down even to the very young new generation. Even to consider what a kilometre is -- despite metric teaching in school .................................!!!

Having said all that I am a child of my time -- I take my measurements, for in house DIY, in cms etc but I actually still think in feet and inches -- and my 100 metres estimate of distance ( I.e. 100 yards + a bit) is still based on the length of a football pitch that I was told as a young Army Cadet -- is a football pitch still about a 100 yards?
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Just back from my thirteenth 100km BP Audax - this one was a DIY permanent. I've just entered the distance and time from my cycle computer into my ride log on the computer and the average riding speed worked out at 13.13 mph. My daughter reckons that I should have waited a week and I'd have had a full house of thirteens :-)

How do you relate 13.13mph with 100km?

Why didn't you cycle 62.5 miles?

Is it perhaps because 100km sounds better than 62.5 miles?

Alan

You're clearly ignorant of the units of mesurement used by AudaxUK and its dissonance with the imperial units favoured by those old enough to have been educatated exclusively in imperial units.

I am very familiar with the units used for distance measurements in this country. and if AudaxUK, whoever he is, uses kilometers to meaure distance, why does he confuse the issue by using mph as distance travel by time?

I also think that you are a miserable git.

That is very kind of you!







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