2012-04-12 - Levi's Commuter Series launch @ LMNH

To those who have a pair...how is the cough crotch area? Jeans I cycle in seem to wear prematurely there

The swrve ones have a "seamless gusseted crotch" which they claim to improve comfort and reduce wear. Anyone vouch for this?

That said it could well be my saddle causing the wear which makes this whole post obsolete

The Swrve Cordura Jeans are epically awesome. This is all you need to know.

Have been using swrve jeans for about 4 months since getting caught out (at work) with a wash cycle on a wet day in the middle of winter. got them from condor who were actually cheaper than most of the online outlets (I checked afterwards becasue I hate getting ripped off).

been using them heavily. they are so good I'm considering buying more pairs just in case the hide wears out - but mine still look brand spankers(ish) and i use an Adamo saddle which is probably worse than most for localised pressure/wear.

best £75ish I've spent.

He strikes me as someone that would pay £150 for some raw denim from Japan too.

Hahahahahaha, you have absolutely no idea just how far from the truth you are there which makes your critique of my critique totally untrustable!

You’ll like this, I’ve never even seen a pair of these shitty jeans and I still dissed them online. I probably should have spent more time tearing apart the beautiful denim cycling jacket instead, haha.

so critiquing something you've never even seen in real life is a plus for you? Or you just like boasting about posting absolute crap?

You have just reminded me, someone the other evening was telling me the guy from thefootdown tended to post quite a lot of rubbish, having never visited the site till now I couldn't pass judgement. I think they had a point though, you're obviously completely full of shit.

That is not a post about jeans, that post is a reaction to the hoards of bloggers that will suck a polar bear’s dick just to get something for free. Levi’s had been going around throwing their money about buying up bloggers left right and centre by giving them free product so seeing as they’re a huge multi national brand (not cyclists trying to make a living) and the products in the range are wack I decided to bash them.

They were going to send me a box of this shite, read my post and subsequently changed their mind. I simply don’t need a denim cycling jacket or seriously lame features on a pair of jeans (neither do you) and I will not be bought by a big brand muscling in on our passion and competing with rider owned companies like SWRVE.

The way blogging works is that one person gets to say whatever the hell they want, thousands of like minded people agree and become regular readers, some disagree and don’t come back and a very small minority (usually from London in my experience at least) bother to bitch and moan and talk shit on forums whilst letting their dog lick their balls because they can’t get a girlfriend.

The vast majority of fixed gear blogs exist simply to repost other peoples content, kiss ass and get freebies. I’m the opposite and a lot of people respect that, if you don’t then don’t read, thats how I like it and posts like the Levi’s one weeds out the people that think differently to me, it’s how the world works. Not everything is great and some people just don’t get on.

Fuckin' hell - I bet you're hard work...

People like you actually think your opinion's worth something.

I am hard work, thanks for noticing.

And people like you waste your opinions on forums all day, haha.

I rather like your blog, your trolling on here however, not so much.

I’m not trolling, I’m defending myself, but I just can’t take this stuff seriously as some people do so I suppose I was being a bit of a dick for the sake of it :-s

there's better ways of defending yourself than calling someone a loser who wastes all his time on an internet forum... on the internet forum in question. that's just going to be seen as a dig at all the users who will understandably get their backs up.

if you wanted to resolve this properly you could have simply challenged him to a game of bike.

The problem with this forum is that everything gets out of hand too quickly because a lot of members get their backs up at the drop of a hat, there’s no winning. You can’t possibly deny that.

Dissing someone for having an opinion by voicing your own opinion will always just be the pot calling the kettle black and it will go round and round and round. You can’t amicably disagree with people here, it’s not possible.

The funny thing is that my blog represents much of what this forum and it’s members represent, far more so than many of the other fixed gear blogs but the only time anyone says anything on here about it is when they give it the old “look at what this guy said about so and so product” which soon descends into a short lived witch hunt, it’s a shame. I constantly preach about loving cycling more than bikes and all the bollocks like tri-spokes, stupid bars, ridiculous tight jeans and all the other shit that gets bashed on here but there you go.

The problem with this forum is that everything gets out of hand too quickly because a lot of members get their backs up at the drop of a hat, there’s no winning. You can’t possibly deny that.

Dissing someone for having an opinion by voicing your own opinion will always just be the pot calling the kettle black and it will go round and round and round. You can’t amicably disagree with people here, it’s not possible.

The funny thing is that my blog represents much of what this forum and it’s members represent, far more so than many of the other fixed gear blogs but the only time anyone says anything on here about it is when they give it the old “look at what this guy said about so and so product” which soon descends into a short lived witch hunt, it’s a shame. I constantly preach about loving cycling more than bikes and all the bollocks like tri-spokes, stupid bars, ridiculous tight jeans and all the other shit that gets bashed on here but there you go.

tl;dr

No need to post it twice - we can see you're a bell-end.

I like sumo's review better, but the other has more foul language, which I find very persuasive.

I think they are doing 36 and 38w, and Levi's sizing seems generous to me., but sizes for us "larger gents" seem to be harder to find.

Swerv only go up to 34s which is really silly. It is done on the basis that cyclists are thin rather than as an encouragement to fat gits like me to cycle. I will have to see if 38s are ok. Let's hope so. It would be good to have a pair of jeans that are comfortable for cycling.

Levi's are shit.
They have been for years..... And that foot down review is spot on.

Don't give these cunts your money.

Homegrown companies like Howies or Swrve are the obvious choice.

Btw, dead joe, one of the problems with this forum is that when one seeks some help in forming a view from people with knowledge, that is always someone willing to share their opinion from a state of ignorance. It really doesn't help people make an informed decision and reduces the value of the forum as a whole.

Levi's are shit.
They have been for years..... And that foot down review is spot on.

Don't give these cunts your money.

Homegrown companies like Howies or Swrve are the obvious choice.

Not for fat boys they are not. One of the good things about Levi's is that they are designed with obese Americans in mind.

I have to say I was all "huh? that's fairly stupid" when I read this bit

so critiquing something you've never even seen in real life is a plus for you?

and then I read this

That is not a post about jeans, that post is a reaction to the hoards of bloggers that will suck a polar bear’s dick just to get something for free. Levi’s had been going around throwing their money about buying up bloggers left right and centre by giving them free product so seeing as they’re a huge multi national brand (not cyclists trying to make a living) and the products in the range are wack I decided to bash them.

They were going to send me a box of this shite, read my post and subsequently changed their mind. I simply don’t need a denim cycling jacket or seriously lame features on a pair of jeans (neither do you) and I will not be bought by a big brand muscling in on our passion and competing with rider owned companies like SWRVE.

The way blogging works is that one person gets to say whatever the hell they want, thousands of like minded people agree and become regular readers, some disagree and don’t come back and a very small minority (usually from London in my experience at least) bother to bitch and moan and talk shit on forums whilst letting their dog lick their balls because they can’t get a girlfriend.

The vast majority of fixed gear blogs exist simply to repost other peoples content, kiss ass and get freebies. I’m the opposite and a lot of people respect that, if you don’t then don’t read, thats how I like it and posts like the Levi’s one weeds out the people that think differently to me, it’s how the world works. Not everything is great and some people just don’t get on.

and thought that your response makes way more sense. Good work! Good to see people getting behind the smaller companies like swrve.

People have different opinions, waist sizes and priorities innit. Why can't we all just get along, man?

Why can't we all just get along, man?

Genes

@poots: That's like writing a review of a book you haven't read.

But my post is not a review, I never claimed it was, someone else used the word review.

Oh sure, blame it on me!!!

Blog writers = bollocks writers: keeping a blog is the new "being a dj/fashion stylist/property developer..."

Bandwagon jumpers, the lot of them.