The sensible world: 1 kilometer = 1,000 meters = 100,000 centimeters = 1,000,000 mm, etc.
Sensible, easy to follow, linear.
America: 1 mile = 1,760 yards = 5,280 feet = 63,360 inches = 506,880 eights of an inch, etc.
Random, arbitrary, made up with complete disregard for linearity.
USA does more weird stuff like ounces, Fahrenheit, and in Canada we get a lot of US news stations and see them use animals as units of measurements often enough (wtf?! lol), etc. but all I'm really curious about for this thread is distance as it relates to speed.
What I'm trying to understand is... what are you guys doing in the UK?
I watch a lot of motorcycle content, like every day, and every day I come across at least one UK rider talking about speed measured in miles.
Have UK motorcyclists denounced the metric system? Has the UK become the 51st state?
I feel like there's some background cultural context to this that I'm not aware of and hoping a fellow motorcyclist can best explain it to me. Teach me?
Sensible, easy to follow, linear.
America: 1 mile = 1,760 yards = 5,280 feet = 63,360 inches = 506,880 eights of an inch, etc.
Random, arbitrary, made up with complete disregard for linearity.
USA does more weird stuff like ounces, Fahrenheit, and in Canada we get a lot of US news stations and see them use animals as units of measurements often enough (wtf?! lol), etc. but all I'm really curious about for this thread is distance as it relates to speed.
What I'm trying to understand is... what are you guys doing in the UK?
I watch a lot of motorcycle content, like every day, and every day I come across at least one UK rider talking about speed measured in miles.
Have UK motorcyclists denounced the metric system? Has the UK become the 51st state?
I feel like there's some background cultural context to this that I'm not aware of and hoping a fellow motorcyclist can best explain it to me. Teach me?
