Do you record your rides in Kilometres or Miles?

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  • paulbnix
    paulbnix Posts: 632
    Miles and metres for climbing.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Km - always have but no idea why, too lazy to change.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Miles
    Then convert to Kms for the metric century challenge.
  • imposter2.0
    imposter2.0 Posts: 12,028
    Anyone here using ancient Egyptian cubits..?? I'm thinking of converting...
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,202
    https://theoatmeal.com/comics/senior_year
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,233
    Km. just to annoy the Gammons. 😉

    Actually, bigger numbers...
  • drhaggis
    drhaggis Posts: 1,150
    rick_chasey said:

    How else can you compare your ride to the pros?

    KM

    This has to be the best argument I've read to switch to miles.

    I use km because I like my systems in base 10. The only imperial bit in my bike is the "auto lap" alarm in my Garmin Edge 530, which for whatever hellish reason is 5 miles, even when auto laps are 5 km in the more basic Edge 25 I also own.
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    I'm genuinely surprised at the fact it seems to be an even split. Really did expect the vast majority to be using Kilometres.
  • epr
    epr Posts: 26
    Used to be miles, now km. A couple of reasons: I think of altitude in metres (as do OS maps) so it makes sense for distance to be in km; I found that I couldn't help mentally judging my rides by whether or not my average speed was over 17mph, and I wanted to get out of that mindset (it hasn't worked, I now just have 27.2 kph as my hang-up); and also as a modest way of sticking my finger up to brexit.
  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,820
    Definitely Miles, though I prefer Furlongs, Chains and Rods but I'm yet to find that as a Widget on the Connect IQ store.
    For (other) people always Meters or Centimeters, though I always consider myself in Feet (6ft). For Monitors or TV's then Inches. For the size of a Room then Square Meters. For the Height of a Wall then Feet, also for measuring plasterboard, but if I'm making something out of wood or other joinery then Inches or Cm depending which is the nearest whole unit I'm measuring to. I use whatever fits.

    Ask me about km's and I'll understand though I'll be doing the mental arithmetic to covert it roughly into miles.


    Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.

  • vincesummerskRoxcBTr
    vincesummerskRoxcBTr Posts: 1,099
    Both - km on Garmin and miles on Strava, tend to think of cycle distances in miles.
    But pretty much everything else in metric.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    I've started measuring everything in Ariana Grandes' to keep it all interesting.

    "Here to the falafel place? I reckon 931 AGs"

    "Eiffel Tower? 321 AGs high I reckon"
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • manglier
    manglier Posts: 1,278
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Which bit of your road bike is meaured in imperial? Everything is in mm and cms.

    Imperial is for mountain bikers and for UK based TTs. It has no other place in cycling.

    My road bike bottom bracket is 1.37" x 24TPI all imperial I think!
  • akh
    akh Posts: 206
    I'm used to thinking of distances on the road in miles. Whilst I could learn the metric equivalent, I don't see the point. If I'm just comparing two numbers the units are almost irrelevant.
  • darrell1967
    darrell1967 Posts: 477
    Kms because I do triathlons which are measured in Kms and metres.

    I lived in Skiathos for 10 years and I work in construction where metric is used all the time.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    I often think I will just head out and do a 160.943K today. It sort of rolls of the tongue.
  • joe2019
    joe2019 Posts: 1,338
    Miles ahead
  • drhaggis
    drhaggis Posts: 1,150
    edited June 2022
    akh said:

    I'm used to thinking of distances on the road in miles. Whilst I could learn the metric equivalent, I don't see the point. If I'm just comparing two numbers the units are almost irrelevant.

    Au contraire. It's consistent units that make the comparison meaningful.
  • Charlie_Croker
    Charlie_Croker Posts: 1,727
    Miles, when in the UK which is most of the time. Obviously when I’m abroad the signs are in klicks which is not a problem (when in Rome…) I use the two thirds rule to get an approximation in miles then I can ‘picture’ how far that is.

    I am British and proud of it, I consider miles to be a British measurement.

    I cycle past an old cast iron mile post every now and then, it has three places signed with the distances marked in Miles and Furlongs. Makes me smile every time I see it.

    I also do gallons (not litres) and can’t wait for Brexit to fully kick in so we can have £ s d back (that’s pounds shillings and pence for you young’uns) as we only went decimal in order to join the common market.

    One thing I get completely lost with abroad in tyre pressures, kilograms per metre or some such thing – no clue!
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    edited June 2022
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    Charlie_Croker said:

    Miles, when in the UK which is most of the time. Obviously when I’m abroad the signs are in klicks which is not a problem (when in Rome…) I use the two thirds rule to get an approximation in miles then I can ‘picture’ how far that is.

    I am British and proud of it, I consider miles to be a British measurement.

    I cycle past an old cast iron mile post every now and then, it has three places signed with the distances marked in Miles and Furlongs. Makes me smile every time I see it.

    I also do gallons (not litres) and can’t wait for Brexit to fully kick in so we can have £ s d back (that’s pounds shillings and pence for you young’uns) as we only went decimal in order to join the common market.

    One thing I get completely lost with abroad in tyre pressures, kilograms per metre or some such thing – no clue!

    Is this serious? Like serious serious?
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • akh
    akh Posts: 206
    drhaggis said:


    Au contraire. It's consistent units that make the comparison meaningful.

    I didn't say what I was comparing to, I only compare to my own former rides, all of which are in miles. ;)

    Agreed I didn't explain that very well. I meant, if both numbers being compared are in the same units, the units themselves are almost irrelevant. If I was regularly comparing my own rides to distances or speeds in kilometres, I'd switch to make the comparison easier.
  • markgriffiths84
    markgriffiths84 Posts: 5
    KM. Miles make you feel slower...
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Kilometres are the norm here.
  • Charlie_Croker
    Charlie_Croker Posts: 1,727
    MattFalle said:

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    Charlie_Croker said:

    Miles, when in the UK which is most of the time. Obviously when I’m abroad the signs are in klicks which is not a problem (when in Rome…) I use the two thirds rule to get an approximation in miles then I can ‘picture’ how far that is.

    I am British and proud of it, I consider miles to be a British measurement.

    I cycle past an old cast iron mile post every now and then, it has three places signed with the distances marked in Miles and Furlongs. Makes me smile every time I see it.

    I also do gallons (not litres) and can’t wait for Brexit to fully kick in so we can have £ s d back (that’s pounds shillings and pence for you young’uns) as we only went decimal in order to join the common market.

    One thing I get completely lost with abroad in tyre pressures, kilograms per metre or some such thing – no clue!

    Is this serious? Like serious serious?
    Yep fraid so SM - sorry if you don't like serious
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    So you really want £ S D back?

    Seriously?
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    And gallons as everyday usuage instead of litres?
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • Munsford0
    Munsford0 Posts: 678
    edited June 2022
    Nobody wants £sd back
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,202
    Charlie_Croker said:

    MattFalle said:

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    Charlie_Croker said:

    Miles, when in the UK which is most of the time. Obviously when I’m abroad the signs are in klicks which is not a problem (when in Rome…) I use the two thirds rule to get an approximation in miles then I can ‘picture’ how far that is.

    I am British and proud of it, I consider miles to be a British measurement.

    I cycle past an old cast iron mile post every now and then, it has three places signed with the distances marked in Miles and Furlongs. Makes me smile every time I see it.

    I also do gallons (not litres) and can’t wait for Brexit to fully kick in so we can have £ s d back (that’s pounds shillings and pence for you young’uns) as we only went decimal in order to join the common market.

    One thing I get completely lost with abroad in tyre pressures, kilograms per metre or some such thing – no clue!

    Is this serious? Like serious serious?
    Yep fraid so SM - sorry if you don't like serious
    You need to do a bit more historical research to underpin your jingoism. The UK has been part of the CGPM for 140 years, and wasn't forced to metrication by Johnny foreigner.

    Possibly it doesn't apply to you personally, but most people have 10 digits, so it does make a certain amount of sense, after all.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Miles are also Roman, n'est ce pas?

    So very European.
    .
    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • navrig2
    navrig2 Posts: 1,851
    I use km because it means every Saturday morning I will have gone further.

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