Turning The TW200 Into A Street Bike (Mostly)

'ere Large Enid - have you seen what he is saying about you?

<thinks:> he is lucky there are no wumpuses about!

 

I remember when I was an apprentice electrician ohh <waves randomly>
years ago, one of our old blokes was told he had to start to measure
things in metric as that was how our specifications were.

We then got stuff measured in metres and inches.

 

You can't fool me, this is one of those chicken and egg trick questions,
innit; I always ask Matron when it's *that* sort of question.

 

Challenger was a bully who got his jollies from beating up on old
men...

 

<G>

"A metre equals three foot three.
It's longer than a yard, you see."

And I bet nobody but *nobody* can place that reference.

 

The Metrication Board?

 

Public Information Film of some sort.

Another one...
"And every common working tool,
Is governed by this self-same rule"
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Curse you, Google. Ding.

It was immortatised by Bernard Levin, when the Board poublished it (and
other ditties) to get the British public to learn the system. Levin
mercilessly lampooned the MB in the Times, referring to its "infant
McGonagall".

 

In

(Takes bait)

Grrrrrr! Get 'im, lads!

 

lol, I knew there'd be one or two out there.

I actually love and prefer VMS/OpenVMS over Unix, but there's
(conceptually) more work opportunities dealing with Unix/Solaris/
Linux.

Cheers

Paul 'Out of work Unix Manager'

 

Oh, yes. The MB should have engaged Britain's Poet Laureate to write a
sestina about the comparative units of measurement...

 

Look up Bernard Levin. He had a wit and a writing style that was
joyous.

 

Took a punch well too, iirc.

 

Guy King said...

Ye gods. Now that *is* something for the do-gooders at the NSPCC to get
hot and bothered about. Leave ordinary parents alone and go after the
idiots who think waxing small children is a sensible thing to do.

 

I'm happy with most metric measurements, but can't form an image of
There is a very useful rule of thumb here. For a person around the
optimal weight (BMI 20 - 25) they will weigh about the same number of
kg as their height in cm less 100. For example a person 1.7 m tall
will weight about 70 kg (0.7 m = 70 cm), someone 1.8 m tall, around 80
kg and so on.

At least with kg there is only one number and no silly multiples like
14!

Believe me it's much easier in metric and you soon get used to it.

Yes a right old mess!

Why do we need to be a "dual" society. Can't we cope with a single
logical system?

At least we know where we stand with the litre. We know it's 1000 cc
i.e. how it relates to the centimetre (cc = cubic centimetre)

Do you really know how much a pint is apart from being a glass of
beer? Do you for instance how many cubic inches there are in a pint?

It's no joke really. People can die from it. Mistakes have occurred
when medical dosage calculations for infants are wrongly administered
because they are derived from their weight in kg but mum and dad only
know how much baby weighs in pounds!

 

So one and the same, then. No surprise.

 

And the kilo. One litre of water weighs exactly 1kg.

No idea. I just know a pint is a good single measure of beer, half a
litre isn't enough, and a litre is too much

 

...at 4 C.

Come on, TOG, you know the answer to that:

A cubic foot of water is 6¼ gallons or 50 pints -- primary-school knowledge.
So there are 12x12x12/50 = 34.56 cubic inches in a pint.

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**** me, I never knew that. Was that originally a definition of the
volume? Seems too neat to be by accident.

Not in the 20th century, it wasn't.

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No, that's derived.

What I was actually taught, at primary school in the 1950s (that
_is_ C20 isn't it, Ace?), was that a cubic foot of water weighed 62.5 lb
and that a gallon of water weighed 10 lb. With the advent of modern
technology one can find that 1 cu ft is not _exactly_ 62.5 lb; whether it
ever was under any standard or at a different temperature is a moot point
-- it's close enough for Government business.

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Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".