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

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.

Repped for being honest (if cynical).

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.

This is all bollock though. You've bought into the image side of 'fixed gear' gear more than most. Now repent by shaving your legs and doing hill repeats on your road bike.