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Bikes For Sale / Re: Sherpa 535L
« Last post by steveparry on April 10, 2026, 08:04:17 PM »Still available.
Hope you weren't wearing shortsNo chance -- we're not there yet. Yesterday's late-afternoon temps were around 18º, but that was followed by a dramatic drop, complete with rain mixed with snow. 🙁
... I thought that it would never be used...Think of the possibilities!


That said, I have no clue what one stone weighs.My last two years of school plus university were during the main changeover from imperial to metric units. I can think in both and sometimes mix them such as 2 metres of 2" x 1" timber. A stone is 14 lbs (pounds) ie 6.36kg. Look in the shops and you will find items which weigh 0.454kg which is 1lb expressed in kg.
Our road signs never changed to km when the country nominally went metric. The official reason was probably that it would cause too much confusion although I suspect that cost was also a consideration. Some of our old road signs are cast iron so not easily modified (see https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/in-focus-fingerposts-and-what-they-mean-235335 for some examples). Petrol is sold in litres while draught beer is still sold in pints and half pints although bottles and cans are labeled in millilitres which are sometimes round numbers and sometimes the ml equivalent of a pint. At least we've moved on from 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound (the money pound (£), not the weight pound) along with some other financial delights such as the half crown and the guinea. The new penny (which doesn't buy much these days is worth 2.4 of the old pennies).
QuoteI have no clue what one stone weighs
Quaint customs they have in Foggie Olde, eh George? Well, of course it depends...on how big the stone is, and what type of stone it's made of, innit? So many variables... But some Unassailable Authority once upon a time decreed that one stone = 14 lbs.
My experience sez it ain't so: We lived in Salisbury when I was a kid, and would have picnics at Stonehenge. I flatly refused to believe that one stone there = 14 lbs, and nothing I've seen or heard since has convinced me otherwise.