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

[robjh]

Miles on my everyday bike as I use it mainly in the UK.
Km on my touring bike as most of my big tours have been abroad.

It's too much faff to change them once they're set up, so I just leave them whichever country I'm actually in.

 

[Rasmus]

You think that is easier than multiplying by 8 and dividing by 5? (7*8=56/5=11.1) And going the other way is just as easy.

I guess we all have different ways of understanding numbers.

I do, yes. Addition is much easier than multiplication and division. 7*8/5 is easy enough, but what about 37?

I prefer nanometers. The numbers are always bigger and therefore sound more impressive. Not sure how far a parsec is, how many nanometers are there in a parsec?

30856776380000000000000000. Approximately.

 

[Dibdib]

km on the bike, kms running (occasionally!), miles walking and in the car.

I don't really know why - most running seems to be metric (5km/10km especially), and on the bike I think that it's mostly because of doing audaxes (and Rule #24 of course).

 

[Profpointy]

a chap in work was once asked "how long's a nanosecond?" He held out his hands a foot apart replying "about this long"

He was right too !

(hint - he was an electronics engineer)

 

[Asa Post]

1 nanometre is 3.24077929 × (10 raised to the power -26) Parsecs (sorry, can't do superscripts in this editor)

30856776380000000000000000. Approximately.

Can I have a TMN, please?

 

[Rasmus]

Certainly not. You provided the inverse of the requested figure

 

[Asa Post]

Certainly not. You provided the inverse of the requested figure

Pedant

 

[Studley]

I use miles, if I used Km's I could end up getting done for speeding !

 

[Gravity Aided]

1 nanometre is 3.24077929 × (10 raised to the power -26) Parsecs (sorry, can't do superscripts in this editor)

Here to help

31 trillion kilometers, 19 trillion miles, 3 1/4 light years is the parsec.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Fathoms.

So are you here yet?

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

So are you here yet?

Nope. Slight delay, I think the bottom bracket needs replacing.

 

[BrumJim]

Pat '8.04kph' doesn't have the same ring to it

I only use miles, I am old fashioned and unwilling to change

Spurious accuracy alert. It would be Pat"8km/h".
(sorry - I also hate the use of the p in the middle).

 

[Nigelnaturist]

and as for a parsec

A parsec (symbol: pc) is an astronomical unit of length used to measure distances to objects outside the Solar System. 1 parsec is the distance at which a disc with a radius of 1 astronomical unit appears to subtend an angle of 1 arcsecond.[1] About 3.26 light-years (31 trillion kilometres or 19 trillion miles) in length, the parsec is shorter than the distance from our solar system to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 1.3 parsecs from the Sun.[2] Nevertheless, most of the stars visible to the unaided eye in the nighttime sky are within 500 parsecs of the Sun.

 

[ianrauk]

and as for a parsec

A parsec (symbol: pc) is an astronomical unit of length used to measure distances to objects outside the Solar System. 1 parsec is the distance at which a disc with a radius of 1 astronomical unit appears to subtend an angle of 1 arcsecond.[1] About 3.26 light-years (31 trillion kilometres or 19 trillion miles) in length, the parsec is shorter than the distance from our solar system to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 1.3 parsecs from the Sun.[2] Nevertheless, most of the stars visible to the unaided eye in the nighttime sky are within 500 parsecs of the Sun.

riiiiiiight

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

and as for a parsec

A parsec (symbol: pc) is an astronomical unit of length used to measure distances to objects outside the Solar System. 1 parsec is the distance at which a disc with a radius of 1 astronomical unit appears to subtend an angle of 1 arcsecond.[1] About 3.26 light-years (31 trillion kilometres or 19 trillion miles) in length, the parsec is shorter than the distance from our solar system to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, which is 1.3 parsecs from the Sun.[2] Nevertheless, most of the stars visible to the unaided eye in the nighttime sky are within 500 parsecs of the Sun.

Tell me something I didn't know.