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#240,341
PhR75 said:
If someone would want to buy mine for a 1000 bucks or for a 500 or even for a 100 I'd sell it in a heartbeat.
For a 50 no, since I need and use it.
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Looks like I've saved a lot of money not knowing anything about this pedal. :)
 
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RedVee said:
That’s interesting.
We are fully metric although people my age and older mentally convert our heights into feet and inches, less often our weights into stones and lbs.
Canada doesn’t use stones? Like 15 stone instead of 210 pounds? or 95.25kg?
I use feet inches for height but kg for weight, most seem to. Our kids vintage use centimetres for height and kilograms for weight exclusively.
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Interesting thought. I will start reporting my weight in stone. It sounds like a lot less and no one knows how to convert.
 
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PillO said:
Interesting thought. I will start reporting my weight in stone. It sounds like a lot less and no one knows how to convert.
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As a cyclist/ex-bicycle racer who follows European pro-cycling - over the years I've learned and use a lot of Euro terms like 'weight in stone' and kilometers for distance. I even have my cycle-computer set for 24hr time.
 
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PillO said:
They were being made up to '02. Started around '72 because they would be taxed as a motorcycle rather than a car. Sold well in the north of England I think.

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Is this the bit you remember?
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That's hilarious! Especially when the white one rolls into the Starsky & Hutch 'homage' :laugh: "Father, Husband, Reliant Enthusiast - RIP" - 1963 was prone to some whacky designs...
 
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Let’s do this!
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RedVee said:
That’s interesting.
We are fully metric although people my age and older mentally convert our heights into feet and inches, less often our weights into stones and lbs.
Canada doesn’t use stones? Like 15 stone instead of 210 pounds? or 95.25kg?
I use feet inches for height but kg for weight, most seem to. Our kids vintage use centimetres for height and kilograms for weight exclusively.
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I’m 6ft and 170lbs. Although I’m pretty good at converting, I don’t know the metric equivalents off the top of my head. No we don’t use stones.
 
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Engle said:
I’m 6ft and 170lbs. Although I’m pretty good at converting, I don’t know the metric equivalents off the top of my head. No we don’t use stones.
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Damn - I need to lose some stones! (that was my bike-racing weight at 6'1")
 
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dagrev said:
Yes. It's weird most all TV and programs and pics showing So Cal have some form of tan and brown for any grassy areas. "Oh look, a green bush." My wife and I have joked about is there anything green out there. There is apparently in some locations and after rain. I guess back to tan and brown after that. It just seems odd from someone like me where the only time everything looks dead is Winter and maybe a few weeks if we have no rain and crazy heat.
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Our 'growing season' is 1/1-12/31.:smug:
 
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