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legro
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I still use inches I cant get my head around the metric, what do you prefere?
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Rafiki
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Sounds more when you use metric... can understand the continental racing better using metric... and it's much easier to work things out using metric.
no competition. If you can handle Thousands, Hundreds, Tens and Units, metric wins hands down. |
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Thomo
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Metric all the way... I understand a lot of old imperial measurements... except temperature... PLEASE never use it....
Actually, some weights are a bit of a no no too...
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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inches..... how do you do a medium gear 72 inch race in metric 
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: Metric or Inches |
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| legro wrote: |
| I still use inches I cant get my head around the metric, what do you prefere? |
I use both, preferably relating to the same thing, its good fun confusing people who can just about get their head around one or the other!  
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Thomo
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Don't do 72" MG events... Easy!
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legro
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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yeah but yeah but no, if I race and use 94" gear on the track, all I think about is 49x14 and 94" whats so complecated about that, I don't work out gears I have them all in my head
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Des
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:16 pm Post subject: Re: Metric or Inches |
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| legro wrote: |
| I still use inches I cant get my head around the metric |
Its cos you're an old git Legro
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PNuT
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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legro.... best you edit the poll..... your losing 
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Billy Boy
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| legro wrote: |
| yeah but yeah but no, if I race and use 94" gear on the track, all I think about is 49x14 and 94" whats so complecated about that, I don't work out gears I have them all in my head |
Is this your head Legro?
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legro
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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less of the old
git fair enuf
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legro
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Billy Boy wrote: |
| legro wrote: |
| yeah but yeah but no, if I race and use 94" gear on the track, all I think about is 49x14 and 94" whats so complecated about that, I don't work out gears I have them all in my head |
Is this your head Legro?
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I asked for that didn't I
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Pierre Head
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="legro" I don't work out gears I have them all in my head[/quote]
I've often wondered how your brain works. |
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legro
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Pierre Head wrote: |
| I've often wondered how your brain works. |
My intellectual or cognitive ability
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Keyser Soze
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| i am bigger in metric than imperial |
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Pierre Head
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Keyser Soze wrote: |
| i am bigger in metric than imperial |
Your wife says it's still small. |
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Rafiki
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Billy Boy wrote: |
Is this your head Legro?
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The perfect image... Well done Billy Boy... |
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legro
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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at least I got something in my head
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Keyser Soze
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Pierre Head wrote: |
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| i am bigger in metric than imperial |
Your wife says it's still small. |
but your mum and sister think its huge
we are talking frame size are we not |
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Rafiki
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| how do you do a medium gear 72 inch race in metric |
Get the events converted... Let's face it, it's much easier saying that you can ride an event with a 7.93m gear than a 100.3"... after all, when you know the metres needed to be covered by one revolution you can work it out with a tape measure... knowing that the tyre depth can have an impact... It's a doddle doing that than having to play with pi and then with the variables of tyre width as well...much more hit and miss with the non-metric method. |
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