first metric century :)

James Hodson <[email hidden]> wrote:

: I was 6'00" at 13 and still am the same height. My weight,
: however, may have altered up and down over the years.

I grew about 2" between 18 and 22.

Arthur (in imperial for now)

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Andy Leighton said:

James Hodson said:

A cricket pitch's length is better understood when quoted
in yards rather than metres or a chain.

Well most people say 22 yards, but 1 chain is just as
acceptable and very easy to understand - most people can
count to one.

Yes, but the point was about understanding rather than
measuring. I can count to one but a chain is meaningless
unless I know it is 22 yards. I can visualise a yard and
therefore understand 22 of them joined together. I don't
visualise a chain as anything other than the length of a
cricket pitch which is a bit circular (not the pitch, the
visualisation.)

Colin

Colin Blackburn said:

Yes, but the point was about understanding rather than
measuring. I can count to one but a chain is meaningless
unless I know it is 22 yards. I can visualise a yard and
therefore understand 22 of them joined together. I don't
visualise a chain as anything other than the length of a
cricket pitch which is a bit circular (not the pitch, the
visualisation.)

I think if you can visualise a cricket pitch as the size of
a cricket pitch then that is the most innate understanding
of size possible. If I'm deciding if I'll fit through a
space without bending down I gauge it in "me-size", I don't
think if it's more than 1.73m/5'8" or not.

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Ambrose Nankivell said:

It was probably 84km. Still, not a bad average.

No, it is around 80 miles according to MapQuest.

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Roger Hughes said:

I feel that to do the job properly you should be insisting
on a return to pounds, shillings and pence. Shouldn't
cause much difficulty in the computer age, anyway.

Except for those of us who would have to add extra fields to
several dozen programs, and change the way several hundred
programs calculate costs, and test that it all works OK with
all the relevant parameter combinations ... :-/

At least we already have customers trading in Euros, so if
we ever accept the Euro the conversion routines are
already in place.

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Ambrose Nankivell said:

More to the point, surely an imperial century(style thing)
should be 144 miles or something like that anyway.

Naah, that would be just gross. However, a proper century
should be in Roman miles.

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Ambrose Nankivell said:

It was probably 84km. Still, not a bad average.

No, it is around 80 miles according to MapQuest.

Oh, so he must have done it 2.5 metric hours, whatever they
are. Sounds like quarter of a day to me.

🙂

A

Danny Colyer said:

Roger Hughes said:

I feel that to do the job properly you should be insisting
on a return to pounds, shillings and pence. Shouldn't
cause much difficulty in the computer age, anyway.

Except for those of us who would have to add extra
fields to several dozen programs, and change the way
several hundred programs calculate costs, and test that
it all works OK with all the relevant parameter
combinations ... :-/

Naah. You just do all the accounting in longint pennies and
knock up a quick display formatting routine.

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At least we already have customers trading in Euros, so if
we ever accept the Euro the conversion routines are
already in place.

All our invoices are in euros already, bar a couple of
sterling customers and one USD. Get paid into a sterling
account, though.

Cheers

Roger

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Originally posted by Just Zis Guy

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And anyway, shouldn't weight be expressed in Newtons?

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Guy

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but then everyone would be 9.81 times "bigger"!

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ambrose Nankivell said:

More to the point, surely an imperial century(style thing)
should be 144 miles or something like that anyway.

Ugh. That's gross!

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Alternatively check out your local branch of CTC.
www.ctc.org.uk. They organise loads of rides of varying
lengths.

I have just joined the CTC, have not received any physical
evidence of this yet though! I shall certainly try and go on
some of there rides. I looked at the audax site and there
dont seem to be many around here (NE England) especially as
I have no transported except bike and public.

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And anyway, shouldn't weight be expressed in Newtons?

but then everyone would be 9.81 times "bigger"!

Ah, but by being 780N instead of 80kg, I'd be fully 2.5%
lighter than all those people who couldn't be bothered with
the mental arithmetic and just multiplied by ten :-P

Guy
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In "]news:[email hidden], Roger Hughes
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the numbers themselves are not particularly important
(except inasmuch as they will tend to determine
psychological barriers, which is where this century (and
that is entryist American cycling slang, too) thing
comes in; likewise with getting under the hour or
indeed, getting one's weight back down below 15 stone)

More to the point, surely an imperial century(style thing)
should be 144 miles or something like that anyway.

A

112 actually ;-)

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In "]news:[email hidden], Roger Hughes
<roger@hughes-MYSPAMFILTERSWORKPRETTYWELLANYWAY-
translations.com> typed:

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the numbers themselves are not particularly important
(except inasmuch as they will tend to determine
psychological barriers, which is where this century (and
that is entryist American cycling slang, too) thing
comes in; likewise with getting under the hour or
indeed, getting one's weight back down below 15 stone)

More to the point, surely an imperial century(style thing)
should be 144 miles or something like that anyway.

A

112 actually after all that is what a hundredweight is.

BTW things the US don't seem to have include yards and
stones. I remember the back of an old log table book(when
the revolution comes all Maths teachers should have their
calculators taken away and have to use them for the rest of
their lives!) which had the SI unit definitive measurements,
something like a metre being exactly
5.3421421424 squillion wavelengths of ultra purple light,
and a kg was so many molecules of strontium 455.

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In "]news:[email hidden], Roger Hughes
<roger@hughes-MYSPAMFILTERSWORKPRETTYWELLANYWAY-
translations.com> typed:

Quoted message said:

the numbers themselves are not particularly important
(except inasmuch as they will tend to determine
psychological barriers, which is where this century (and
that is entryist American cycling slang, too) thing
comes in; likewise with getting under the hour or
indeed, getting one's weight back down below 15 stone)

More to the point, surely an imperial century(style thing)
should be 144 miles or something like that anyway.

A

112 actually ;-)

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In "]news:[email hidden], Roger Hughes
<roger@hughes-MYSPAMFILTERSWORKPRETTYWELLANYWAY-
translations.com> typed:

Quoted message said:

the numbers themselves are not particularly important
(except inasmuch as they will tend to determine
psychological barriers, which is where this century (and
that is entryist American cycling slang, too) thing
comes in; likewise with getting under the hour or
indeed, getting one's weight back down below 15 stone)

More to the point, surely an imperial century(style thing)
should be 144 miles or something like that anyway.

A

Also, why do we still think there are 12 hours in a day?

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In "]news:[email hidden], Roger Hughes
<roger@hughes-MYSPAMFILTERSWORKPRETTYWELLANYWAY-
translations.com> typed:

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the numbers themselves are not particularly important
(except inasmuch as they will tend to determine
psychological barriers, which is where this century
(and that is entryist American cycling slang, too)
thing comes in; likewise with getting under the hour
or indeed, getting one's weight back down below 15
stone)

More to the point, surely an imperial century(style
thing) should be 144 miles or something like that
anyway.

A

Also, why do we still think there are 12 hours in a day?

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So I'll expect to see you hanging on Lances wheel again
this year

wearing

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your strip for The Wait At Top club.

Who is Lance?

You got that new-fangled 'lectric out your way yet? ;-)
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Is it just me, or does anyone else associate the whole
"keep the mile, pound, fulongs/fornight" brigade with
blazers, biogitry, little englandism and supporting
football? (these all being bad things in my book).

In the mid 70's I lived for a while in Manitoba (Canada)
where miles were in use. In '77 we moved to Ontario, a nice
drive of 1400 miles, where kilometres were already in use. I
bought a new stick-on face (no dual faces like here in the
UK) for the car speedo and life carried on. Weights were
also in metric and as an aside consumer packaging was bi-
lingual across Canada. Life carried on.<1> Some 20 years
after returning to the UK we are still struggling to fully
accept the metric system simply because of [censored]-footing.

No problem to me being an old git and working in
engineering, I know that a km is approx. 0.6 miles, a
quarter of an inch = 6.4mm, 1kg = 2.2lbs , etc. (yeah, our
tolerances are a bit slack ;-) and that I'm 5feet 10 and a
half inches and weigh 79kgs ;-)

<1>Except when confusing lbs and kgs when re-fuelling
aircraft :-(

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Nowadays, not so fast, but about 55 years ago I was
cycling home from work one evening and a motorist started
to tail me, after a little while

it

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was begining to iritate me and I was just about to stop
and say something when he drew anlongside and shorted at
me that I was travelling at 30 mph, I didn't know what to
say as a response.

Oh, a pissing contest! Nowadays at 50 years old I travel
downhill on a road bike at up to 40 mph with a tail wind in
Leicestershire and 42 mph downhill on rough tarmac roads in
Derbyshire on an mtb. I once rode downhill at 50mph in
Yorkshire. Speeds verified in 2 cases on 2 different bike
computers on my bikes and in the other case with a computer
on a friends mtb. These are easier to use at 40mph than
working it out with a map and stopwatch.

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Have you noticed that journeys home are always faster than
the journey

out?

Only when I get the route and wind direction to work
in unison.

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which means I had travelled 84 miles in 2 hours 50
minutes, which was an average of (if my arithmetic is up
to date) 29.5 mph. Bearing in mind that the bike was
loaded for a fortnights holiday, self catering and
clothing for that time, primus stove, paraffin, meths,
water container, milk and etc, that wasn't a bad average,
especially as the trip was across the Cotswolds.

And then the alarm clock woke you up and it was a wet Monday
morning ;-)
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