Miles or Km's? which do you use to record a ride?

[Nigelnaturist]

Both I have two gps units, one in metric the other in imperial, I tend to ride to a set distance in Km's i.e. 50. 60Km's ect, but my own database is in (for the most part) imperial, but does show Km's but not Km/h

 

[jefmcg]

There's an British assumption that everyone's native measurement is miles. Where's "KM - I'll stick with what I know best"?

 

[jay clock]

KMs for many reasons
1 I was brought up in a km country (and can easily convert if need be in my head)
2 I am strongly pro-metric
3 The kms align easily with the grids on OS maps
4 Sounds more than miles

For bike rides I know all my average speeds only in km

For running I do admit to looking at a mile average sometimes! And I convert my car consumption into mpg!

 

[Hyslop]

Imperial in my imperious way.

 

[Asa Post]

I use miles.
My son, living in Washington DC, uses kilometres




[He always was an awkward bugger]

 

[Specialeyes]

For running I do admit to looking at a mile average sometimes! And I convert my car consumption into mpg!

I'm with Abe Simpson: "My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it".

 

[MickeyBlueEyes]

Miles.

 

[Keith Oates]

Kms - Every road distance out here is measured in Kms !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Steady]

Miles for me, can't say I know why other than it's what I've always done.

My brother likes talking in KMs and I just smile and nod. I know the standard distances 5k/3 miles. 10k/6 miles, 20k/12 miles but anything else requires a more complicated than neccessary long winded mental arithmetic process - cue nodding and smiling.

 

[slowmotion]

I bought a cheapo cycle computer a few years ago. When I got home, I discovered it only did KMs. Had to take the sodding thing back and get a proper one!

Write to UKIP about it.

 

[Glow worm]

Write to UKIP about it.

I would but am not convinced many of them can read.

 

[ayceejay]

I use kilometers and the ten hour clock - I am fast - swift even.

 

[jefmcg]

And I convert my car consumption into mpg!

I've never bothered to find out: what units for petrol consumption are you supposed to use here?

(I love telling people it's kg, litres and miles in the uk. Eyes do boggle. And my father noticed that miles and pounds have started to slip into my language)

 

[snorri]

what units for petrol consumption are you supposed to use here?

Miles per litre, anything else gets terribly complicated

 

[Big_Dave]

[QUOTE 3318795, member: 9609"]My befuddledness with measurements is temperature; A warm day is above 65 Fahrenheit and a cold day is below 5 centigrade - between these measurements I'm not sure what is going on.[/QUOTE]
Its not just me then