You guys will see the light sooner than later.Originally Posted by BIGLRY
Little do most people know that every US auto manufacturer has long since gone metric.
Don't know about HD, Victory, or Indian, and don't care, either.
You guys will see the light sooner than later.
Little do most people know that every US auto manufacturer has long since gone metric.
Don't know about HD, Victory, or Indian, and don't care, either.
Why Are There 100 Cents In A Dollar? Ask Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson loved the decimal system.
In the years after the American Revolution, American money was a total mess.
Each former colony had its own currency, typically denominated in pounds. But a Maryland pound, say, didn't equal a New York pound, and neither equaled a Pennsylvania pound. British pounds were also in widespread use in the U.S., as were Spanish dollars. And Congress printed notes of its own.
The currencies were all divisible in different ways. The British pound was divided into 20 shillings, and each shilling was divided into 12 pence. The Spanish dollar was divisible into eight reales, one for every finger (thumbs didn't count).
The founding fathers agreed that the former colonies needed a single currency to help unite them into a single country. Even Thomas Jefferson, famously wary of the power of the central government, thought the currency situation was crazy.
In April of 1784, Jefferson wrote Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage for the United States. It's essentially this 11-page ramble about currency, rates of exchange, weights of gold and silver coins. It made the U.S. dollar what it is today.
Jefferson's 1784 essay "Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit, and of a Coinage for the United States."
The U.S. needed a currency that was so simple that any farmer could do his own accounting, Jefferson said. "The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life," he wrote. "These little perplexities are always great to them."
The U.S. currency shouldn't be divided into eight pieces, like the Spanish dollar. It shouldn't be divided into 90 pennies, as Robert Morris, the central government's superintendent of finance believed. The dollar had to be decimalized — divided based on powers of 10. "Every one knows the facility of Decimal Arithmetic," he wrote.
Jefferson wasn't the inventor of the dollar, and he wasn't the first person to come up with decimalization. But he was extremely influential, and it was his influence that persuaded the new government to do things the way he outlined in this essay.
In 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which laid out the national currency — including dollars, quarters, dimes (then known as "dismes") and cents, "each to be the value of the one hundredth of a dollar."
Don't make fun of our measuring system and I won't pick on those big-eared, inbred pedophiles you call a Royal Family, anyway, back to Brakeaway. I have to look at the Gauge of the L bracket as that would be the only variable. The only explanation that I can see is maybe, as a safeguard, they decided to increase that particular piece being it does take a beating. Outside of that I don't t think Honda decided to pick me to give a short bolt to. BTW Harley is metric, SAE, torx, hex, slotted, Phillips etc. etc it's their way of saying - bring it to the dealer.
What they talking about ? Beside counting and collecting money from former colonies , I know nothing about any
other systems . For me , the ONLY IMPERIAL measures counts .
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No they're not inbred, BTW I honeymooned in Niagara Falls in case the fact checkers are around.
Which time?
Now that's funny, which time was it you asked? The last time.Which time?
I was just browsing Cruiser Customizing and the Brakeaway Head Banner declaring:
"New and Improved" and then it proceeded:
"All new mounting hardware makes installation much faster and easier than ever before.
Clamp tension is adjusted by simply turning one screw. Tension setting is less prone to the effects of temperature. Finally!! A mechanical throttle management device that combines, Style, Quality, and Safety."
Why? Was the mounting hardware slow and difficult before? I didn't find that, actually it was fairly easy up until the end. mmmm Or does the new one come with an extended pivot screw?
News at 11
Hopefully, it's the LAST last time.
Mind you, your greenback is likely worth 25% more right now than it was the last time.
Who knows, maybe if you venture back into "real" Canada (not that shitty one foot across the border stuff), but into Northern or NW Ontario, or heaven forbid, Friendly Manitoba, you might actually like it.
Just one recommendation:
Leave your handgun at home. They are classified here as restricted weapons. If you bring it, don't declare it, and get caught smuggling it into Canada, to jail you will go. If you bring it and declare it, the border officers will either escort you back to the US side of customs, or they'll confiscate it. Either way, you'll lose either your weapon or your trip.
And mace and pepper spray are classified the same as restricted weapons. So don't bring those either.
Condoms however, especially for Niagara Falls, are OK.
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