cycle computer – miles or kilometres?

simonmb wrote:I must say I

simonmb wrote:

I must say I tend to look slightly askance at those who have a kilometre set up and congratulate themselves on completing a ‘Metric Century’ as if it were as worthy an achievement as an ‘imperial’ century. While a 62 mile ride is ALWAYS worthy of congratulation, its conversion to a ‘century’ is another symbol of the ‘dumbing down’ and rampant acceptance of mediocrity in our society. Although this instance is perhaps ultimately harmless, it is particularly sad to see when it creeps in to our wonderful sport.

Oops, might not want to go here then…
http://road.cc/content/forum/10600-metric-century-challenge-2009-2010

Personal choice I guess, and
Personal choice I guess, and shouldn’t be too difficult a decision to make since whatever you’re on it’s easy to do a mental calculation to see what it is in the other :B Having said that, miles would appear to be the logical choice for UK. I must say I tend to look slightly askance at those who have a kilometre set up and congratulate themselves on completing a ‘Metric Century’ as if it were as worthy an achievement as an ‘imperial’ century. While a 62 mile ride is ALWAYS worthy of congratulation, its conversion to a ‘century’ is another symbol of the ‘dumbing down’ and rampant acceptance of mediocrity in our society. Although this instance is perhaps ultimately harmless, it is particularly sad to see when it creeps in to our wonderful sport.

I use miles an hour for speed
I use miles an hour for speed when in the UK, but change to kilometres an hour when abroad.

I always use metres for height gain though, luckily the Garmin 705 lets you have a combination of both imperial and metric for different measurements.

I’m in a similar boat, always
I’m in a similar boat, always been miles but considering metric – just wondering how long after a change it will take for me not to convert to mph mentally!