Pretty much every country that has converted to metric still uses some of their old system in day to day conversations - I remember being in France and asking for half a kilo of apples, the old lady serving me repeated: “un poid des pommes” quite literally “a pound of apples”. France converted to the metric system in 1795! She was old but not that old
I’ll use a mixture of metric and imperial: I’m 1m80 tall with a 42" chest. The one thing that I haven’t used for maybe forty years is Fahrenheit, I’ve almost lost the mental ability to convert it to Celcius. In the last twenty years I’ve only heard one person in the UK use it in conversation.
My last two outside training rides this happened to me… 2 inner tube X 2 co2 cartridges x 1 useless patch (each ride). Made me wish i had stayed on the trainer with TR and Zwift, watching hawkeye episodes and not having to worry about psychotic cars
Get on the mountainbike and learn to ride dynamically instead of ass in the saddle and just powerpeddling.
A small vertical hop, or even just unweighting the bike is usually enough to clear a small obstacle.
And when you’re used to it you wont freeze from the “oh no !” shock but just be like “meh, *hop”.
Also a good way to get rid of random people sticking to you rear wheel by the way…
