miles or KM whats your computer set to ?

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  • NWLondoner
    NWLondoner Posts: 2,047
    I use KM.

    I can't understand the damn thing but i find i can pace myself better in them :?
  • on the road
    on the road Posts: 5,631
    I use miles, because I live in britain.
  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    Km. I always use metric in computations, leaving imperial for expressions ("just a few miles to go", etc).
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Bhima wrote:
    My brain works in KM. Can never understand miles/feet.

    Lightyears/second for sprints. :wink:

    Wakey wakey. :wink:

    Miles for me, then covert the feet into metres when I download my Garmin. Weird huh ?
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Miles. Or it will be when I buy a computer.

    I'm not sure the kilometer had been invented when I started cycling. My first maps were one inch to a mile; none of your 1:50,000 nonsense! I had to wait till I got home then trace the route with a bit of cotton and measure it. Aaah, happier, simpler times!
  • singlespeedexplosif
    singlespeedexplosif Posts: 1,564
    I use Km, because I live in Britain, and it's no longer the 1960s.
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    miles, although you do travel further in KM I suppose.
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  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    I didn't realise so many people in UK had shifted to KM. Are you non-drivers? If not, do you do the mental twiddling to translate road signs and (some) car speedometers?
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Miles because I'm British.
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  • Barrie_G
    Barrie_G Posts: 479
    passout wrote:
    Miles because I'm British.

    +1, though like a few others I prefer to do my weight in kg, (mainly so I can work out body weight percentages at the gym) I'm starting to get there with meters, though I still convert from / to feet and inches.

    I blame the british government they should have gone fully metric in the early 70's instead of being half arsed about it.

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