“The old saying is that if you can persuade the customer to tattoo your name on their chest, they probably won’t switch brands” - Professor Robert W. Hall, Indiana School of Business

I guess harley can put whatever they want where ever they want and as long as it's chrome, the customers won't mind :o)


>>>>I'd forgotten that 28 lbs also make a quarter (qr) and 4 qr = 1 hundredweight (cwt), 20 cwt = 1 ton (not a metric tonne). Small workers' vans over here are rated by their weight in cwt.
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>>>Think of lengths: poles and furlong (furrow-long, i.e. the length of ploughed furrow)
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>>>In "troy weight" there are 20 grains to a scruple (cf your "sand")
>>>:-)
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>>Stop. You are giving me a headache.
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>Well you're the guys who are still keeping these stupid units alive: carpenters measuring things in feet and inches, for example, and I think Harleys have their engine capacity stamped on in cu ins, nicht war?