: I'm glad spelling doesn't count! :-).

: I do a lot of work overseas, so have pretty much switched to metric unless
: the person I'm addressing doesn't understand.

: At times it is embarrassing that the U.S. is one of the only 3 countries in
: the world that have not officially adopted the metric system (the others
: being Liberia and Myanmar/Burma). It's difficult to speculate how much
: this failure to adopt the simple world standard has hurt my country in
: it's global competitiveness.

: John (Dallas, Texas)

Hi John

NZ only converted to the metric system in the 60's/70's so I first learnt the imperial system at school. It's only when I started building my first kayak to Pygmys plans that I had to reaquaint myself with feet, inches and fractions again and it was hard going. In saying that I still judge fuel efficiency in mpg and pounds pressure when I pump up my car tyres so even I haven't fully converted to metric.

Off topic I'm interested in your thoughts on the different hybrid designs out there but I'll start a new topic soon for some feedback.

Cheers
Steve