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Bike weights. Lbs, Kg or Cucumbers?

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A new way of measuring?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66994957.amp

And green-fingered Vincent Sjodin from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, has certainly earned that nickname, having just grown the world's heaviest cucumber.
Measuring 4ft (1.2m) long, it weighed in at a whopping 29lb 8oz (13.4kg) - equivalent to an average mountain bike - at last month's UK National Giant Vegetables Championships.


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 2:49 pm
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equivalent to an average mountain bike – at last month’s UK National Giant Vegetables Championships

Seems an odd place to have enough mtbs for that average figure to be of use.


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 2:52 pm
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My bike weighs more than my cucumber seems at the same time like a pretty lame boast, and the weirdest double entendre 


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 2:52 pm
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So now I can brag that my bike weighs the same as a cucumber?


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 3:06 pm
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My bike weighs more than my cucumber seems at the same time like a pretty lame boast, and the weirdest double entendre

If you have a big enough cucumber, you could ride it like a bike

Oo-err


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 3:09 pm
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So now I can brag that my bike weighs the same as a cucumber?

Only if it’s average.


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 3:11 pm
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To be fair, I'm impressed that they've written a statement like

(13.4kg) – equivalent to an average mountain bike

And actually used a figure that really is about right for an average mountain bike!


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 3:19 pm
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Lol, reading further, he’s grown a 27kg marrow too, assumedly to match an average ebike?


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 3:27 pm
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And actually used a figure that really is about right for an average mountain bike!

"Hey ChatGPT, what common object weighs around 13.4kg that I can use to compare this giant cucumber to in my newspaper article?"


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 3:29 pm
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What's that in football pitches, or double decker busses, or fractions of the size of Wales? How many end to end would reach the Moon?


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 3:34 pm
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How many end to end would reach the Moon?

315,250,000.

Yes, I am sad. And bored.


 
Posted : 12/10/2023 3:40 pm

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