An athlete running at 10 m/s can do 100 m in 10 seconds (I can’t). Likewise, the speed on a tennis ball, baseball or cricket ball means much more if it is given in m/s than in km/h. To put things into perspective, in cricket the bowler releases the ball at about 18 metres from the batsman. If the ball is travelling at 50 m/s, the batsman has about 0.3 s to make his shot. Sorry, I don’t know the equivalent values for baseball, but the maths is the same.
In an ideal world m/s is, in my view, better than km/h but I am not going to loose any sleep over the matter. From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Brian White Sent: 07 April 2014 20:49 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53691] Re: Schwinn 270 recumbent bike Never understood everyone's fascination with m/s. _____ From: James <mailto:j...@metricmethods.com> Sent: 4/7/2014 12:57 To: U.S. Metric Association <mailto:usma@colostate.edu> Subject: [USMA:53690] Re: Schwinn 270 recumbent bike No, that is not an option, Gene. I'm happy with kilometers per hour. Jim -- James R. Frysinger 632 Stoney Point Mountain Road Doyle TN 38559-3030 (C) 931.212.0267 (H) 931.657.3107 (F) 931.657.3108 On 2014-04-07 11:24, mechtly, eugene a wrote: > Jim (Frysinger), > > For recumbent cycling, I would prefer setting the spedometer to meters per > second. > > Is that an option? > > Gene > ________________________________________ > From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [owner-u...@colostate.edu] on behalf of James > [j...@metricmethods.com] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:00 PM > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:53678] Re: Schwinn 270 recumbent bike > > One oddity noted on this recumbent bike: > The speed reads out numerically with the unit symbol km/h. But the > distance reads out numerically with the unit symbol KM. > > Jim > > > -- > James R. Frysinger > 632 Stoney Point Mountain Road > Doyle TN 38559-3030 > > (C) 931.212.0267 > (H) 931.657.3107 > (F) 931.657.3108 > > On 2014-04-02 12:55, James wrote: >> We took delivery of our new Schwinn 270 recumbent bike two days ago. >> Purchasing from Amazon.com gave us a price well below MSRP. Assembly >> took a few hours but I did not rush it; probably I could have done it in >> 2 h. In a few of the steps, my wife provided a spare set of hands which >> was essential. >> >> The fasteners are all metric. The console's program allows the user to >> select miles or kilometer in its setup sequence. (One can change it >> later, and old data gets converted.) Of course, I chose kilometers. I >> was pleasantly surprised to see, when entering user profile data, that >> the program then asked for height in centimeters and mass (they called >> it weight) in kilograms. >> >> I would rate this machine 4.9 out of 5 stars so far. The embedded >> heart-rate monitor (working off contacts in the hand grips) appears to >> double-count the pulse. We have not yet tried the MP3 player connection, >> the USB data download port, or the resistance programs (varying >> resistance as a function of time in emulation of terrain topography). >> The machine is extremely quiet if the fan is off. And it is not at all >> noisy. >> >> Jim >> > >
