i was actually going to mention bikes yesterday: someone told me not to
have a breakdown in france because all the threads (on bottom brackets and
such specifically cycling components) all go the other way...

--On Tuesday, January 07, 2003 6:27 AM -0800 "Kimmel, Richard H SAW"
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>
>  "In the end manufacturers often choose a size that makes no sense in any
> system."  Gary Vines.
>
>   Amen, Gary.  And this is the real problem.  My personal experience with
> this phenomena is with bicycles, a machine  immensely more popular in the
> rest of the world than in the US.  >  The fact that most bike
manufacturers now use metric fasteners and
> measurements has not made working on bikes any less mysterious.