Dear All,
This is an interesting quotation from a blog that promotes bike
riding. Here is a relevant bit:
Seriously, how ridiculous is it that we insist on feet, inches,
pounds, pints, and miles when the rest of the world has already made
the switch? It’s not that hard to get used to (though I still have
almost no frame of reference regarding what constitutes hot when the
temperature is in Celsius). For instance, I don’t even think of bike
parts in terms of pounds and ounces: it’s all grams. When talking
about bikes, I’ve flipped the switch mentally. Ever buy a 2-liter
bottle of diet coke? You’re used to it there, too. Wouldn’t be any
great feat to do it for everything else we measure. Seems like while
we were throwing stimulus money around on a bunch of useless crap that
forcing a switch to the metric system would have been a good use for
some of it.
You can see this in context at:
http://www.skibikejunkie.com/2010/05/protected-rider.html
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain
from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
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