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Tony Raven said:

M-gineering wrote on 06/04/2007 20:42 +0100:

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An English mile is approximately 1609.347m

Statute or Nautical? ;-)

Neither, I think.
A statute mile is 1609.344m
A UK nautical mile is 1853.184m

1609.347m is an international mile.

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Ian Smith wrote on 06/04/2007 22:21 +0100:

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Tony Raven said:

M-gineering wrote on 06/04/2007 20:42 +0100:

Quoted message said:

An English mile is approximately 1609.347m

Statute or Nautical? ;-)

Neither, I think.
A statute mile is 1609.344m
A UK nautical mile is 1853.184m

1609.347m is an international mile.

ITYM U.S. Survey Mile ;-)

Being a proper pedant requires lots of practice

--
Tony

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there
is no good evidence either way."
- Bertrand Russell

I am quite happy with the conversion that 1 mile = 1.6 kms

Together with all the other inaccuracies of cycle computers ( together with
those which are deliberately set by faking cyclists It would be interesting
to compare a bunch of cyclist doing exactly the same road route to see what
all their computers read!

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Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom.
www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

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Alan Holmes said:

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> Is it perhaps because 100km sounds better than 62.5 miles?
because that would be 583 m of the mark?

I think your calculator is not reading correctly, I've just checked it
again, this time using a calculator, whereas the first post was using
pencil and paper calculation, and it still comes out as 62.5 miles.

garbage in is garbage out. 100/62.5 =1.600000000000000000000000000. If a
conversion from one system into another gives such a nice round number
alarmbells should ring. An English mile is approximately 1609.347m

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Pinky said:

Having said all that I am a child of my time -- I take my measurements,
for in house DIY, in cms etc but I actually still think in feet and
inches

No so crazy, as all lumber is sold in imperial sizes, as in 122 x 244 x
1.9 cm etc
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Tony Raven said:

Ian Smith wrote on 06/04/2007 22:21 +0100:

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Tony Raven said:

M-gineering wrote on 06/04/2007 20:42 +0100:
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> An English mile is approximately 1609.347m

Statute or Nautical? ;-)

Neither, I think.
A statute mile is 1609.344m
A UK nautical mile is 1853.184m

1609.347m is an international mile.

ITYM U.S. Survey Mile ;-)

Being a proper pedant requires lots of practice

Except that in some locations the US survey mile is referred to as an
international mile, presumably those places where the US survey has
been, and told them that it was the standard mile (cf, for example,
all the merkins that steadfastly believe "a pint's a pound the whole
world round"😉.

regards, Ian SMith
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Pinky said:

I am quite happy with the conversion that 1 mile = 1.6 kms

Together with all the other inaccuracies of cycle computers ( together with
those which are deliberately set by faking cyclists It would be interesting
to compare a bunch of cyclist doing exactly the same road route to see what
all their computers read!

Humm, I wonder if that may account for some of the high speed a couple
of my fellow cyclists have reported 🙂

Pinky said:

I am quite happy with the conversion that 1 mile = 1.6 kms

Together with all the other inaccuracies of cycle computers ( together with
those which are deliberately set by faking cyclists It would be interesting
to compare a bunch of cyclist doing exactly the same road route to see what
all their computers read!

--
Trevor A Panther
In South Yorkshire,
England, United Kingdom.www.tapan.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Agree: one of the 'joys' of Audaxing is working out the mileage
(kilometerage?) delta between your bike computer and the organisers
tape measure......

Ian Smith wrote on 07/04/2007 11:01 +0100:

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Except that in some locations the US survey mile is referred to as an
international mile, presumably those places where the US survey has
been, and told them that it was the standard mile (cf, for example,
all the merkins that steadfastly believe "a pint's a pound the whole
world round"😉.

Or as John Cleese said on USain radio, when asked about the difference
between Brits and Americans, "When we hold a World Series, we invite
other countries"

--
Tony

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there
is no good evidence either way."
- Bertrand Russell

Tony Raven said:

M-gineering wrote on 06/04/2007 20:42 +0100:

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An English mile is approximately 1609.347m

<pedant>

That is a US Survey Mile. The English Statute Mile is approx 1609.344m
while the English Nautical Mile is now exactly 1852m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile

</pedant>

No, the English statute mile is exactly 1609.344m, and has been since
the inch was standardised at exactly 25.4mm.

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Alan Holmes said:

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Alan Holmes wrote:
> "vernon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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>> Just back from my thirteenth 100km BP Audax - this one was a DIY
>> permanent. I've just entered the distance and time from my cycle
>> computer into my ride log on the computer and the average riding speed
>> worked out at 13.13 mph. My daughter reckons that I should have waited
>> a
>> week and I'd have had a full house of thirteens :-)
>
> How do you relate 13.13mph with 100km?
>
> Why didn't you cycle 62.5 miles?
>
> Is it perhaps because 100km sounds better than 62.5 miles?

because that would be 583 m of the mark?

I think your calculator is not reading correctly, I've just checked it
again, this time using a calculator, whereas the first post was using
pencil
and paper calculation, and it still comes out as 62.5 miles.

Someone's been taking maths instruction from Bill Sornson over in
rec.bicycles.tech...

I must admit I used the old fashioned one kilometre = 5/8 of a mile.

Alan

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Pinky said:

I am quite happy with the conversion that 1 mile = 1.6 kms

Together with all the other inaccuracies of cycle computers ( together
with
those which are deliberately set by faking cyclists It would be
interesting
to compare a bunch of cyclist doing exactly the same road route to see
what
all their computers read!

Humm, I wonder if that may account for some of the high speed a couple
of my fellow cyclists have reported 🙂

Perhaps they got their miles and kilometers mixed up!

Alan

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squeaker <[email hidden]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:

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Agree: one of the 'joys' of Audaxing is working out the mileage
(kilometerage?) delta between your bike computer and the organisers
tape measure......

For only the second time in recorded history, my computer read less than the
Organisator's piece of string on The Dean on Saturday.

My computer: 304.8 km
Nik's string: 308.2 km

And mine includes the extra 2.7 km of the Larrington Deviation, a cunning
method of going around Cleeve Hill instead of over it.

--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Murdock's Gardening Law: If it's green, the paving isn't
finished yet.

On Apr 10, 9:30 am, "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]>

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For only the second time in recorded history, my computer read
less than the Organisator's piece of string on The Dean on
Saturday.

My computer: 304.8 km
Nik's string: 308.2 km

The closest I've come to agreeing with Organisator string is on the
Kidderminster Killer where string and Cateye were 500m apart.

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And mine includes the extra 2.7 km of the Larrington Deviation, a
cunning method of going around Cleeve Hill instead of over it.

On last year's edition I missed the right turn at the top so when I
got to the bottom I turned round and rode back up the other side.
Later Nik told me I could just have turned right and rejoined the
course.

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vernon twisted the electrons to say:

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I'll be in your neck of the woods on 22nd April doing the Three Bridges
Audax.

Something to be aware of, if you're not already. They're currently
working on the bridge in Stamford Bridge and it's closed to traffic. I
expect that you can still get a bike across on the footbridge, but
depending upon where you're coming from and where the Audax starts from
this may be an issue?
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