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After 8 months, I have my hour back!

Exactement ! mdr

Yep, time zones Alfa through India, and Lima through Yankee make the 24 standard time zones, plus Zulu which is UTC makes 25 letters. Time zone Juliett (the 26th letter) is "your local time zone." Now, why Alfa is not Alpha and Juliett is not Juliet or Juliette is a whole other trivia rabbit...

Bingo! You win $1! Or rather, €1. Next time I'm in lovely Poland :D

Oh, no, we benighted Yanks are aware of why it was introduced lol. It's just that the reasons are obsolete now. Changing the clocks doesn't save energy anymore. And in the summer, we kind of automatically get more daylight after work. The twice-yearly ritual has become a pain in the arse...

It's a bit of a fine point I suppose, but GMT was the former time standard, based on a meridian. UTC is the current time standard, based on an array of atomic clocks. GMT is now "just another time zone." Zulu is the military name for UTC. At least, that's how I understand it and I could be...

That looks like a splendid ride!

Eldred Street is insanity lol. Even if I could get up it, I'd be afraid to ride back down! There's another good one, about 30-ish %, called Fargo St. near Silverlake. The LA Wheelmen used to have an annual hill climb event there (on pedal power bikes), but unfortunately the City made the...

You should see the ugly streets in the Hollywood Hills. Big ruts, cracked and raised concrete, potholes, badly patched and re-patched areas... and steep. It's like technical single track mountain urban biking lol. That's my daily ride because there is very little car traffic up there, so I...

I'm liking the S Class of Bikes a lot! lol

Now Stefan, you wouldn't actually take the Mercedes G 63 of bicycles off road, would you?? 🤣

My Delite came with Johnny Watts knobblies, which I didn't really want. But those are what come with the GX option, so it was either toss out a pair of perfectly serviceable tires and put on smooth ones, or get some use out of the JWs for a while. 95% of my riding is on streets. This is...

I've been riding my Delite around for over a year now, and this is the first time I've spotted another Riese & Müller in the wild! But not in my own city of Los Angeles - this was near the Musée Marmatton-Monet in Paris. A nice-looking charger with Enviolo and a rather sad-looking Brooks...

Update: Just finished installing the Continentals and took a 4Km ride around the neighborhood. Waaaayyyy better!

I have a 2023 Delite (HS Rohloff), and I'd buy another one! Maybe the red one tho ;) The only thing I'm changing on it is the tires - it came with Johnny Watts knobblies and after about 15 months of riding them, I'm putting Continental Urbans on it. I don't ride anywhere nasty enough to...