Were we just lucky enough that our sport originated (I guess commercially) from mostly metric system countries to have our kite dimensions end up metric? And I wonder how the yanks feel about that? It's good to have a bit of a win considering the amount of things that are still measured today with the imperial system.
(Ps, please reinstate the red thumb option admin)

when pumping your kite up do you read the gauge by "psi" or "kPa" ???

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Redgy said...

when pumping your kite up do you read the gauge by "psi" or "kPa" ???

I understand what putting air into the frame does mechanicly and structurally. so I dont use one. Every session requires a different amount of air. Depending on all sorts of things such as air temperature water temperature what the swells doing what moves ill be trying etc etc

Gauges are responsible for alot of damage to kites.

Look up the terminology we have to use in aviation unhooked. Most international pilots are useing meters but we still use feet. For wind speed its almost whatever flavour of the day be it knots feet m/s kph mph I just use what the bigger guy does so as to avoid confusion.

I do not believe it would be easy to convince chinese manufacturers to use imperial but I bet the hawian surfer boys sure tried at the start.

Definitely one of the more useless topics ever started...

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Redgy said...

when pumping your kite up do you read the gauge by "psi" or "kPa" ???

I don't use a guage. I use "ping"

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Freddofrog said...
Definitely one of the more useless topics ever started...

And thanks so much for your valuable input. FML.

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Unhook3d said..

Freddofrog said...
Definitely one of the more useless topics ever started...

And thanks so much for your valuable input. FML.

dont worry.
every new topic is a good topic. second a forums top 5 topics is pics pages 1 2 3 4 5 funnny photos lol pages 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
you know the forums dead.

but yeah i reckon its due to where they were made and that they were made for us round eyed basterds that they used metric

Looks like it's gusting 10m/s here, I'm heading out.

Thought of surfboards being always in cm sounds bit queer


Twin tips on the other hand

I rode a wave the other day that was a solid 4 foot hawian. That was 1.5 head and had a 2m face....

Apparently this shows use of Metric vs Imperial by country (I'm not sure why Antarctica is assumed to be imperial, would've thought it has more metric users laying claim to areas than not):

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Unhook3d said..

Freddofrog said...
Definitely one of the more useless topics ever started...

And thanks so much for your valuable input. FML.

So how many green thumbs did you get?

bunnings must get a lot off their imperial nuts and bolts from the china seconds rejected by the USA

The USA and Burma, sorry, Myanmar, and one of the Gold/Ivory Coast countries in West Africa.

I'd also add:
- Anyone in the UK aged over 35.
- Buyers of weed in ounces and pounds.
- Enjoyers if whisky in "wee drams".
- Real people who drink beer in "pints' and "schooners".
- Proper drivers who do 'the ton' at 100mph, not 162kph.
- Trout fishermen after a 10lb-plus trophy.
- Those who are wrong "by a country mile".
- Porn stars (go figure ...).

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Freddofrog said..
Definitely one of the more useless topics ever started...

No wind in WA?

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Freddofrog said..
Definitely one of the more useless topics ever started...

if you understood the OP then it would all make sense

We really need some wind...

what size is your bar

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Scrubes said..
what size is your bar

1 inch ........ measured across the eye.