Measurement-The ton

O. K. There are these terms and units of measure. The regular ton, The long ton, A short ton and a metric ton. What is each in pounds? Thanks. J.

Regular ton is 2000 lbs.
Metric ton (tonne) is 2204 lbs.

Short and long tons are other terms for the above, I think.
Ben

A short ton and regular American ton are the same thing 2000 lbs
A long ton and a imperial ton are the same thing. It is a United Kingdom measurement. 2240 lbs.
A metric ton is from the metric system 1000 kilograms. It converts to 2204 lbs.

And to those of us into vintage motorcycles, "the Ton" is 100 mph.

And then there is the time I got "long toned" by a new scrap yard in town offering more money per ton.

So to you what is vintage??? Say a 1981 bike or say a 1974 or????. I have 6 bikes on the place. Newest is a 1981 and the oldest is a 1972. That said I have been riding on the road for 45 years now

63 BSA A65, 76 and 82 Goldwings, GSX1100G, 03 ST1100P, a Burgman 650, and the remains of a homebuilt two wheel drive mini bike.

First time I heard that expression was while on my 1967 BSA Lightning. The sticker on the oil cover said (something like) "Fastest in Class - 160 MPH". An old Brit at the bike shop in California called it a "Ton and a Half...." I have been ton-up on it several times, just not for about 25 years....

[i:654c4848f0]..the Ton" is 100 mph[/i:654c4848f0]

And a "long ton" is actually going 100 miles in an hour.

Long ton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Long ton, also known as the imperial ton or weight ton,[citation needed] is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements standardised in the thirteenth century that is used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries alongside the French metrication invented in 1799. One long ton is equal to 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg), 12% larger than a short ton and 1.6% larger than the 1,000-kilogram (2,205 lb) tonne, or 35 cubic feet (0.9911 m3) of salt water with a density of 64 lb/cu ft (1.025 g/ml).[1] It has some limited use in the United States, most commonly in measuring the displacement of ships, and was the unit prescribed for warships by the Washington Naval Treaty 1922—for example battleships were limited to a displacement of 35,000 long tons (36,000 t; 39,000 short tons).

The Imperial ton was explicitly excluded from use for trade in the United Kingdom by the Weights and Measures Act of 1985.[2][3]

Unit definition[edit]
A long ton is defined as exactly 2,240 pounds (a little over 1.016 metric tonnes).
The long ton arises from the traditional British measurement system: A long ton is 20 hundredweight, each of which is 8 stone, which is defined as 14 pounds. Thus a long ton is 20 × 8 × 14 lb = 2,240 lb.

Takes a big dog to weigh a ton!