Km/h or Mph

fiestaman · 27-08-2009 08:51PM #1

Hey, does everybody use Km/h now or is anybody still the old way with miles, im kind of a mile man meself. On there speedo!

bcmf · 27-08-2009 08:56PM

I have/had this quandry myself. In the interest of being 'euro' I changed my speedo to kmh. Now I spend the time trying to convert the kmh back to mph. So its back to mph for me.

wotdef · 27-08-2009 08:56PM

Yep its hard adjusting to K's having used miles for years but you are better off going metric cus then you know if you are about to break the speed limit and how far you have left to go. hahaha

peterako · 27-08-2009 08:57PM

Was an mph man myself....till I decided to bite the bullet when I got my latest bike computer.

VERY strange looking at the larger figures. I still find myself mentallly converting what I see to mph

But at least I'll be able to have meaningful discussions with my kids whne they start to take teh cycling a bit more seriousl

Peter

27-08-2009 08:58PM

All about the kms. Although I do use 'mileage'.

rigal · 27-08-2009 08:59PM

I'm a miler myself but I think that's just because I run and that's what I'm used to.. Guess I should really bite the bullet and go metric.

copacetic · 27-08-2009 09:06PM

mph for me, the weight of bike thread meant nothing to me in kgs either.

Dr.Millah · 27-08-2009 09:06PM

Km all the way. Hardly refer back to miles anymore. sort of like when the euro came in i spend the first year converting everything to pounds. But after a while you just get used to it.

27-08-2009 09:07PM

copacetic wrote: »

mph for me, the weight of bike thread meant nothing to me in kgs either.

Newtons?

copacetic · 27-08-2009 09:21PM

Dónal wrote: »

Newtons?

funnily enough I've been metric for work etc forever, just still think in lbs for bodyweight and miles/mph for distance. I convert in my head to them if people start talking in km/h. Maybe its being a runner from a young age as mentioned above. I 'feel' 7 minute miles when running for instance and have an idea want 20 mph on a bike is like, in km/h I just don't have the same feel for it. Bike size I'm in cm for some reason,swimming I'm in metres too.

DePurpereWolf · 27-08-2009 09:25PM

Dónal wrote: »

Newtons?

Now that just doesn't make any sense.

As an engineer I can't not respond to this.

Newton is force, kg is mass.

Being a metric man myself I have to say I'm pretty good in converting most empirical units, pressure I just can't do, I still don't know what a Torr is. Please use Pascal, although I prefer to say newton per square meter.

Beasty · 27-08-2009 09:32PM

Usually use miles (the Brit in me), but will use km if trying to impress someone:)

abbeyside1 · 27-08-2009 09:37PM

Miles per hour for me too.

Raam · 27-08-2009 09:58PM

What the hell is a "mile"?

27-08-2009 10:02PM

DePurpereWolf wrote: »

Now that just doesn't make any sense.

As an engineer I can't not respond to this.

Newton is force, kg is mass.

Being a metric man myself I have to say I'm pretty good in converting most empirical units, pressure I just can't do, I still don't know what a Torr is. Please use Pascal, although I prefer to say newton per square meter.

He said 'weight' not 'mass' my fellow engineer.

ednwireland · 27-08-2009 10:09PM

light years

Chips Lovell · 27-08-2009 10:15PM

Was educated in km so use them. Wouldn't really have a breeze as to how far a mile is.

It is annoying at how some cycling clubs still insist on using miles though.

copacetic · 27-08-2009 10:15PM

generally if you find yourself saying 'as an engineer' stop straight away and don't say whatever was about to come next...

sy · 27-08-2009 10:16PM

parsecs/s for me;)

Captain Havoc · 27-08-2009 10:23PM

Everything I do is metric.

ROK ON · 27-08-2009 10:25PM

A 62mile spin is just underwhelming, whereas a century is a century.

Raam · 27-08-2009 10:26PM

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mile

Also called statute mile. a unit of distance on land in English-speaking countries equal to 5280 feet, or 1760 yards (1.609 kilometers).

How quaint

Fredo · 27-08-2009 10:26PM

jerseyeire wrote: »

Everything I do is metric.

Do you drink pints or half litres?

27-08-2009 10:28PM

Raam wrote: »

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mile

How quaint

Anything you can do, I can do better...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Irish_mile

The Irish mile was longer still.[9] In Elizabethan times, four Irish miles was often equated to five English, though whether the statute mile or the "old English" mile is unclear.[9] By the seventeenth century, it was 2240 yards (6720 feet, 1.27 statute miles)[14][15][16] Again, the difference arose from a different length of the rod in Ireland (usually called the perch locally): 21 feet as opposed to 16½ feet in England.[15][17]

DualFrontDiscs · 27-08-2009 10:28PM

Fredo wrote: »

Do you drink pints or half litres?

Depending on where you drink, you're only getting 0.5L anyway!

DFD.

sy · 27-08-2009 10:32PM

Dónal wrote: »

Anything you can do, I can do better...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Irish_mile

Don't forget there are 80 chains in a statute mile, so I propose that we measure our bike speed in chains per second!

DirkVoodoo · 27-08-2009 10:36PM

The metric system is the only thing keeping us from being American.

Raam · 27-08-2009 10:40PM

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

The metric system is the only thing keeping us from being American.

The Atlantic Ocean is helping also. Don't forget about that. It's a big ocean.

Beasty · 27-08-2009 10:40PM

Many of you who do not seem to recognise the "mile" still want do 10m and 25m TTs!

Raam · 27-08-2009 10:41PM

Beasty wrote: »

Many of you who do not semm to recognise the "mile" still want do 10m and 25m TTs!

He's got us there, dammit!

DirkVoodoo · 27-08-2009 10:42PM

It's ok, we have conversion charts!!!

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