02-03-2022, 02:53 AM
(02-03-2022, 01:08 AM)pdedse_imp Wrote:(02-03-2022, 01:00 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote:(02-03-2022, 12:57 AM)pdedse_imp Wrote: Beautiful looking bike...I like the gauges, very clean speedo with only kilometers. I wish U.S. bikes
would just show mph and forget cluttering the display with both mph and km--it seems obvious we're
never going to commit to a kilometers system for U.S. roadways. Personally, I wouldn't mind if we did,
but give me a clean speedo! I must have been in 6th grade, some 45 years ago, when we started
preparing for the great "metric switch" or whatever they called it. Wonder what happened to that? How
did the U.S. as a country begin all that, and then just say, "ehh, no thanks"?
RE metric in the U.S. - The U.S. is a non-trivial and complicated country. Other countries had an easier time making the transition, many doing it in the 1970s.
Haha...the U.S. is a non-trivial country? I don't know what that means, but is it
something we should be proud of? : )
We started in the '70s as well..if my memory serves me right, I would have been in 6th grade in 1975-76. I just think it's curious that in school we were presented with this grand idea that we were going to "catch up" or "align" with the rest of the world with a more effecient system, and then the movement lost momentum somehow and poof! Nada.
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Haha...the U.S. is a non-trivial country? I don't know what that means, but is it
something we should be proud of? : )
We started in the '70s as well..if my memory serves me right, I would have been in 6th grade in 1975-76. I just think it's curious that in school we were presented with this grand idea that we were going to "catch up" or "align" with the rest of the world with a more effecient system, and then the movement lost momentum somehow and poof! Nada.
lol - complicated doesn't mean worse. Just a lot of moving parts. Proud? No question, there is a ton to be proud about. But like the uber CB1300, big, powerful, exciting, - it is certainly more complicated than the sibling CB1100.
For comparison: Canada gets complicated when the Quebec cartel decides to turn off the Maple syrup taps.