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Good measure

THANK HEAVENS! I thought I was getting slower. Apparently not, speedos are getting faster!

The speedometer on my BMW R60 is in miles per hour. For those who came in late, this is a form of measurement left over from more honest times, before marketing people discovered cocaine had to find ways of keeping itself in line other than a credit card.

We had to go metric then of course because, well

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