Training

[Tiggertoo]

Training for LeJog is getting a little hard around here, and this is why:

The average day time temperature for the next 30 days will be 98 F

And so on, ad infinitum until maybe October.

[Jamesh]

36°!!! Where are you?

[Tiggertoo]

36°!!! Where are you?

If it really was 36 degrees, I would be quite cold, which might be a nice alternative to 98.
You'd better get used to Fahrenheit readings, Imperial measurements are coming back after Brits living in Britain slavishly cow-towed to European edicts and gave up on their birthrights. :

[Paulatic]

You'd better get used to Fahrenheit readings, Imperial measurements are coming back after Brits living in Britain slavishly cow-towed to European edicts and gave up on their birthrights. :

Have they all got alzheimer's ?

[Mike Sales]

You'd better get used to Fahrenheit readings, Imperial measurements are coming back after Brits living in Britain slavishly cow-towed to European edicts and gave up on their birthrights. :

Have they all got alzheimer's ?

Yes, they caught it from eating BSE-ridden beef.

[Paulatic]

Yes, they caught it from eating BSE-ridden beef.

Almost forgotten about that another Tory gov failure.

[cycleruk]

36°!!! Where are you?

If it really was 36 degrees, I would be quite cold, which might be a nice alternative to 98.
You'd better get used to Fahrenheit readings, Imperial measurements are coming back after Brits living in Britain slavishly cow-towed to European edicts and gave up on their birthrights. :

I/we were using Centigrade long before we joined the common market and is all I have used.
If someone quotes a Fahrenheit temperature I have no feel for it.
Only because TV weather reporters say that 61F = 16C that it has any correlation to me.

Now I'm a staunch "mile" man although I can reasonably convert kilometres easily, as with any general metric measurement. Anyway our road measurements have always been in Imperial measurements.
Not sure though that people would appreciate rods/chains/furlongs.
http://home.clara.net/brianp/lengths.html
Does seem a bit strange though asking for 2 metres of 2x4 please.

I'm quite happy with what we have thank you. Leave well alone.

[Jdsk]

Anyway our road measurements have always been in Imperial measurements.

That depends on what you mean by "always".

The English statute mile was introduced in 1593, but local variations continued long after that, The Imperial mile was introduced from 1824 to 1826.

Jonathan

[mattsccm]

I always ask for 6 feet of 2x4 and expect that store man to give me something damn close. Of course I will always have a bit extra .
Miles and feet here but below inches I use cm as those are a nice handy size.
Handily a pair of size 8 wellies are a foot long and across my hand from thumb tip to the widest part is 6". Measuring with parts of the body is dead useful
My younger mates do it all metric but they are newcomers to cycling brought up with trendy telly and magazine coverage and know no better.

[Jules59]

Digressing somewhat
But "trendy telly " made me think why are TV screen sizes quoted in diagonal inches but the TV's other dimensions in metric. ?

[scottg]

36°!!! Where are you?

If it really was 36 degrees, I would be quite cold, which might be a nice alternative to 98.
You'd better get used to Fahrenheit readings, Imperial measurements are coming back after Brits living in Britain slavishly cow-towed to European edicts and gave up on their birthrights. :

Fahrenheit is European, Dutch actually.
Now that England is liberated from the Normans, you should switch back to Kelvin.