I read a book called "Wheelers" a week ago. It was pretty good, but I couldn't help noticing how in this book set hundreds of years in the future, the authors used miles, feet, and inches throughout, almost like they were making a point of it. They used Celsius consistently, too, which lead me to conclude (correctly) that the authors are British. It seemed kind of odd to be so insistent on feet and miles, yet they are apparently quite accepting of Celsius.
I got a new bike computer a couple of weeks ago. It was made by Cateye, a Japanese company. It can of course do everything in metric. It shows speed, distance, time, temperature, elevation, and elevation gain. The manual always listed metric first, with colloquial in parentheses. I noticed that it *always* listed the colloquial in parentheses, even in the Japanese and other sections (maybe so their other customers would at least understand what the strange mph and other symbols meant). Just another example of how it is entirely possible to use metric in the USA. There's no reason not to. Carl
