I used to work weekends in a (car) tyre depot.
No-one there would know what a kPa was.
Some of the gauges had bar as well as PSI but all the charts were in PSI.
On that back of that, I don't think anyone would be expected to know kPa
considering there was no exposure to it.
From: Pierre Abbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:34943] RE: Bicycle salesman can't handle bars
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:42:14 -0400
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 08:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That's exactly what I was thinking. If I have to know how to calculate
> the area of a piston and the pressure that exerts by calculating it in
my
> head (or even on paper) to know metric than I'll never no metric (not
> because it is beyond me to learn that but because I really could care
less
> how to do that). I wouldn't expect the average person to know how to do
> that in metric or 'US customary'.
I was trying to figure out if I could get enough pressure out of it to pump
up
the tires. I had a pump before that I couldn't.
I know not everyone can calculate the area of a circle in his head, but
someone who works in a bike shop should know what a kilopascal is.
phma
