The Best Tech From EWS Races on the British Isles

 Bike tech seems like PC tech recently, every year it changes quite a bit.

 @Ryan2949: that is why i update my bike like a console-every 4-5 years

 @Ryan2949: except Cube

 Amazing how much it's evolved in 30 years!!!!!

 @jzPV: except Cube have finally updated their geometry recently. I would have agreed two years ago though.

 Totally agree. Kona's carbon Process has a spare hanger bolted to the cable port cover.

 My previous Whyte still had a front mech boss. I bolted a spare rear hanger to the boss - may as well use it for something...

 You know what that means...

 @gnarnaimo: Small feet

 @gnarnaimo: small gloves

 @gnarnaimo: disproportinately large balls?

 The British isles includes the island of Ireland. www.britannica.com/place/British-Isles

 Geographically speaking, everywhere in this article is within the British Isles. Not everywhere is part of Britain, but the isles is different.

 @km79: Sooo, geographically not the British Isles? I'm not discussing politics here, just geography.

 @km79: I'm going back to the mountain biking.

 @carlitouk: and England will forever be 'geographically' in Europe... You can't separate politics and geography, the politicians set the borders...

 @Topdjreynolds: Yes. Any country can leave the European Union, but they cannot leave the continent of Europe. Unless....they somehow manage to geologically separate their country and then sail away

 Uh, no. It's a physical geographical location. It'd be like me saying Canada isn't part of North America because we're not American. There's nothing political about stating a geographical fact. Ireland is part of the British Isles.

 @carlitouk: “We will geologically remove ourselves from the European continent!” was probably considered for Johnson’s magic bus at some point.

 @deadlyhifi: Don't be giving him any more wacky ideas!

 All this world geography is more confusing to me than "behind the numbers."

 You guys realise that it's only called the British isles at all because it was arbitrarily named so at some point in history?

The Irish no more considered their selves British then than they do now.

There's nothing about these islands that inevitably or naturally has meant they are called Britain...

 @hitmansam: So was North America. Canadians are North American. They're not America. Irish are in the British Isles, not Britain.

How is this so hard to understand? Y'all invented this language, at least try to comprehend what it means.

Ps on the last point; NO SHIT. Literally no word is naturally named. We invented language and named it based on what we created. How are you dudes not getting this?

 Let me repeat again; the geographical area that Ireland is in is known as the British Isles. My only logic is that it's literally called that, because that is literally the definition of the term "British Isles." This is profoundly simple, and yet here we are, people spilling tea over it.

It's the exact same as the example I gave. North America wasn't named that by the Canadians. Canadians live in North America. This does not mean they're American, it means that the physical location of the country lays within the borders of North America. This was done by a foreign power, and guess what? It's still entirely accurate and you don't see Canadians crying when an article coming out about North American culture includes them.

Say what you want. Say it as slowly and condescendingly as you want. You're still wrong. Ireland is part of the British Isles.

 @sherbet: the point is that it is known to YOU and people like you as the British isles. But, fortunately, you don't have a monopoly on naming conventions.

 Your right.

 As a Irish man it insults the f*ck out of me that geography our island is part of the British isles. It grinds my gears no end. It’s a touchy subject and can be avoided simply by saying the uk and Ireland

 Sorry that you're insulted by facts.

 Facts that are entirely made out of opinion are open to contestation

 Neither the UK nor the Irish Government refer to the British Isles, instead 'these islands' have been used since the 90's during formal correspondence and meetings etc or just as Britain and Ireland. There is no legal documentation or agreements in place that names the islands as the British Isles, it's a leftover from the British Empire. Anyone not from here who wants to refer to the group of islands geographically, if they must, could simply call them the British and Irish Isles thereby potentially avoiding offence to several million people.

 Glad for the chat lads. We're all still going to use the term "British Isles" as it's less wordy than "Britain and those people that cry about association with the British." Cheers though!

 Of course they have a place... In the corner of my office.