KM vs Miles

[presta]

The SI unit is the Pascal, but that's a bit weeny for practical use, being 0.00014 PSI.

Which is why we have multipliers.

30psi = 206kPa
32psi = 220kPa

 

[Molteni Man]

What about the joint Anglo - French Concorde project? Parts that were made here were done using imperial and the parts made in France were made using metric….. and then the whole thing was joined together!
Learnt this during a visit to the Brooklands Museum near Weybridge this past summer. As well as the cars, there is a mass of aviation including one of the few Concordes still remaining. It’s a great museum and the Concorde experience is very interesting if you do go!

 

[Binky]

I always record my rides in miles for distance and feet for elevation. Always have always will.
However, for years now whenever I measure something it's in metres/cm/mm.
So much easier to say I need to cut that piece of wood to 1350mm than 4 foot 5 inches and 1/8.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I measure my rides in pedal revolutions; 8,999 on todays ride. I hear the French like revolutions.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I measure my rides in pedal revolutions; 8,999 on todays ride. I hear the French like revolutions.

Did you eat cake?

 

[Dogtrousers]

What about the joint Anglo - French Concorde project? Parts that were made here were done using imperial and the parts made in France were made using metric….. and then the whole thing was joined together!
Learnt this during a visit to the Brooklands Museum near Weybridge this past summer. As well as the cars, there is a mass of aviation including one of the few Concordes still remaining. It’s a great museum and the Concorde experience is very interesting if you do go!

That's absolutely fascinating.

I wish my dad was still about to ask, he worked in the aluminium industry (cylinder heads and stuff like that) and spent quite a bit of time going to Spain and Germany in the 60s and 70s. I wonder what units he was working in?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Did you eat cake?

Banana cake as it happens

 

[Dogtrousers]

Banana cake as it happens

To the guillotine with you! Your tumbril awaits.

 

[matticus]

What about the joint Anglo - French Concorde project? Parts that were made here were done using imperial and the parts made in France were made using metric….. and then the whole thing was joined together!
Learnt this during a visit to the Brooklands Museum near Weybridge this past summer. As well as the cars, there is a mass of aviation including one of the few Concordes still remaining. It’s a great museum and the Concorde experience is very interesting if you do go!

I did not know that! Shame NASA didn't learn from them ... https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/

 

[Punkawallah]

To the guillotine with you! Your tumbril awaits.

Fun fact. The original guillotine was built using traditional French measurements, and was 13 pied’ (feet) tall. So no Revolution (or metric system) without proper engineering in feet & inches ;-)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Fun fact. The original guillotine was built using traditional French measurements, and was 13 pied’ (feet) tall. So no Revolution (or metric system) without proper engineering in feet & inches ;-)

What is that in heads?

 

[Binky]

What is that in heads?

Very close. In fact neck and neck

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Very close. In fact neck and neck

A head by a nose then?