Oh I love how this hi-tech gives results in Imperial measures.
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Portobello Road surprise infra
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Are you sure it's imperial not US? Although at a difference of a few hairs per 0.9144m it's irrelevant.
Posted 4 years ago # -
in US recipoes I often see the advice to add a cup of flour and a cup of Sugar?
Posted 4 years ago # -
Oh, yes. It will be US.
Posted 4 years ago # -
US volume is a far riskier business. Although it seems that a "metric" cup (240/250ml) as sold in British shops is a very similar in size to it I generally google the weight of such measurements. Most recipes are only a guideline anyway so imprecise cups don't matter.
Don't make the mistake of assuming a US pint is interchangeable with an imperial pint though.
Posted 4 years ago # -
There is a Metric Martyr in my office and I have instructed her that if she wishes to use Imperial measurements she has to use the lot. Cubits, grains, furlongs.
Posted 4 years ago # -
I'm sure I've mentioned before that my dad had a fun measuring system the fortnight/furlong/firkin. All other units are expressed in fractions of multiples of such things.
For instance an elephant is approximately 1/32 furlong long and weighs around 40 firkins.
Meanwhile Wales has an area of about 512,000 square furlongs and the top speed of Whale is just short of 2 million furlongs per fortnight.
It's all a little confusing but hopefully IWRATS's micrometer can be calibrated to assist with it.
Posted 4 years ago # -
I like the sound of your dad.
Posted 4 years ago # -
@acsimpson - US recipes with cups for measuring quantities both dry and wet make me furious. Also tablespoons for butter. Don't those guys own scales and measuring jugs with lines on them?
Posted 4 years ago # -
I think in miles and yards still. The next generation in my NZ family haven't got a clue what I'm talking about.
Posted 4 years ago # -
I've been trying to convert from miles to kilometres, mostly because I've got Strava set to metric. Thankfully a yard and metre are roughly the same, at least, and 1 mile = 1.6 km, which is reasonably easy to convert between...
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A more accurate (& easy) conversion between miles and km is divide by 5, multiply by 8, or vice-versa.
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The Fibonacci sequence is quite useful as a quick converter between miles and kilometres.
I know you all have the Fibonacci sequence memorised...
Posted 4 years ago # -
What size are your wheels? Old school mountain bike, mate. Three microfurlongs.
Posted 4 years ago # -
"The Fibonacci sequence is quite useful as a quick converter between miles and kilometres."
Hah - early bits more approx.
I struggle with any arithmetic after 200km or so, despite my job. Still, it keeps those riding with me amused.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Now your mixing metric and FFF. Perhaps that's allowed, I'll need to check.
I assume you mean Milifurlongs though as micro is pretty tiny.
Posted 4 years ago # -
Milli, aye. Molten brain syndrome. In my defense I have been mostly trying to get several hundred inverted commas in the right place today.
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@acsimpson, did your Pop's measuring system do depth of water in Fathoms?
Posted 4 years ago # -
They've added a good chunk since I last went past. 300+ metres eastbound now. Amuses me that the biggest bit of segregated infrastructure in recent years has come from a roads project rather than active travel.
Plus this somewhat adorable mini-resurfacing machine:
Posted 4 years ago # -
Only only used this for the first time on Monday.
I stopped to take this after almost missing the ‘turning’ - missighted by the opaque bus stop.
Wasn’t going that fast. )
Posted 2 years ago # -
I go this way several times per week. Some problems with how it's been implemented, but overall it is very useful and means I cycle on the main road (until Fishwives Causeway) rather than taking the circuitous Restalrig Path/Seafield Path route.
They just need to extend this cycle infrastructure further eastwards, and reduce the speed limits for motor vehicles too.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Need to ban parking where that black car is in the photo. access is so often obstructed.
(happens in both directions in equivalent places)
Posted 2 years ago # -
I think car was moving, but if cars park there then yes.
But
As they would be ‘blocking’ an access, presume ‘illegal’ already.
Enforcement…
Posted 2 years ago # -
There's a gap in the double yellows there on both sides, bit of paint (official or otherwise would fix 99% of problems) . In theory you can sneak in on the bike (e.g. In your photo). But add a bus in the stop...
Posted 2 years ago # -
@toomanybikes, happens more on the eastbound approach (other side of road towards Jock's Lodge junction). Often encounter cars in the (on road, painted) cycle lane just after the junction, immediately before segregated lane starts. Usually possible to enter segregated section, but I recall a couple of times after facility had just opened, having access completely blocked.
Other issue westbound is cars turning left into side streets. Need to be super alert at Piershill Terrace (a favourite of rat-runners avoiding traffic lights further west) and the access to Morrison's car park.
Despite these issues it's still far preferable to the sections of road further east, by Eastern Cemetery and along Moira Terrace. Lots of impatient and/or speeding drivers trying to overtake at junctions, with oncoming traffic too close, or before pedestrian refuges. Not nice! I prefer to avoid these bits of road westbound if at all possible. Eastbound just about tolerable because of bus lanes and better line of sight at junctions.
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