The ease of the metric system is hard to beat.
Like one liter of water is 1 kg. (At room temperature)
One ton of water is 1000 kg or 1000 liter or 1m3
Adding meter, parts of meters like "µ" meter, cm, mm, km together is so easy that even a child
can do it.
Understanding that water freeze at 0°C and boils at 100°C .... Everybody can remember...
I lived in the UK for some years, and talking with palls about weight and lengths, and the combination between the two Units. They were completely lost when it came to imperial measures and units....
It is not easy for a nation to change from imperial to metric, it takes time, but over one or two generations the UK is full metric....
The majority of engineering parts is sold in metric measurements, meat and dairy produce is sold in the metric measure system IN THE UK today..
Carpets is sold in m2 , fuel is sold in liters, water is sold in m3, Energy is sold in kWh ect. In the UK
The UK is going metric. (And Eire for that matter)...
But we (and I) still like our BSA in Imperial measurement...
19" rims, 7/8 handlebar, 3 or 4 gall fuel tank. Possible to do the Ton :-) , not 200 km/h
:-)
That is part of BSA being a long gone historic brand.
Like Imperial measurements is part of a soon gone historic system.... Like it not. That is the way
things are moving....
Impossible one generation ago, reality for the generation growing up now, in England...
Could be the "dude" or youth in the tune was on about the bike doing close to 200 km/h (120 mph)
The geezer was metric, just not knowing it. :-)
With nice pics. :
http://youtu.be/l3TVEH1DPbgPS. Will I change my BSA odometer from miles to km/h. .?. Never...
It was born in Birmingham with Miles on the clock, and it will stay that way...as an historic thing of the past.
It will fight to do the Ton to the end of time. ( it will newer reach 200 km/h anyway ).
MY old trusty Imperial bike, made of iron, by men of steel...