Yup. Although there were metric sizes once. Replacements are expensive.
Got his measure I think
May 07, 2019
Last reply: 7 years ago
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I have seen metric-only tyres. Not sure what they were for.
AFAIAA the imperial part is because it was the US that started *mass* production of cars.
My brother had a 80s BMW with metric tyres. He bought some used wheels for it which used the 'standard' sizes. Not quite sure why there was the choice.
We've got a place like that in Cambridge where you can get all of that now 7 days a week:)
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Big metal works around back all cut to size if required.
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We also used to have a very good electronic parts and other stuff shoppe you could get valves there and tape recorder drive belts all sorts of odd cables and much more. H. Gee's been there years since I believe the end of WW2 ! It closed recently pity it was bloody useful!
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LOL! You couldn't make that one up!...
The one he made up was trying to explain the blow in his possession...
When my Dad started doing repair work "on the side", the first 2 customers who tried to rip him off were policemen. My Mum was horrified when he told he'd expected it since the police in Sicily were famous for it. Turned out the "British Bobby" was no less corrupt. Maybe less obvious. But no less corrupt.
Everyone has a brain fart occasionally.
Think of measures such as time, 30 minutes is half. 1:30 is 1.5. You start thinking imperial vs metric and get confused with time, or degrees, minutes and seconds of arc.
My best one was when I was marking some student assessments on fole system analysis.
I caught myself adding up a student's marks in hexadecimal.
No microphone in sight and all the audience chewing gum.
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