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

I've also had Giardia, after drinking a delicious fresh strawberry milkshake. The strawberries had been fertilized with human poo. Yum.

• slowly puts down cutlery and stops chewing my lunch *
  

I personally enjoy the fact that giardia is otherwise known as "beaver fever"

In reverse it's abbreviated to Coppi That®: "fever for the beaver"

The red jeans are incredibly over sized in the first photo, no?!

This thread has become a bit intense.

I was at the launch with my workmates, we had a fair share of free beers, gave a go at the rollers for free, met some nice people, checked out the gear. In that order

Good times.

Does he do 54s?

We were trying to find out for Clive, but if you want a pair as well then that is a valid question.

Clive and I just thought you might want another tent as a birthday present, but I guess we've blown it now.

Levi's make shite products. They can't be trusted to make garments to the same standard they used to years ago and their premium ranges (LVC, Made & Crafted etc.) are hideously overpriced. The LVC jeans are ok but not remotely worth their £215 price tag. They are first and foremost a brand, not a clothing manufacturer. This commuter series is obviously unbridled bandwagon-jumping. Fuck them.

if you want to lose weight so you can fit the skinny levi cycling accesories read this : -

http://www.lfgss.com/thread1040.html

we had a fair share of free beer

Lucky you. The girl on the door gave me two tokens and my friend one. Then preceded too hand out them to all her mates willy-nilly. Standard behaviour of course, but had she been a bit more liberal I might have bought some - thinking of the free beer as a offset against the £80 price tag.

But noooooooooooooo. No jeans for me. So I went to The Coven magazine launch, which was ace, and had a free bar so I got smashed. And the magazine is great.

Back to Giardia

I was in India when I got the illness and was travelling in Himachal Pradesh. Had been eating as a vegetarian, but in one restaurant we were given a meat dish. My travelling companion was a veggie so I felt obliged to eat it.

Very quickly I developed the key symptoms of sulphorous burps and farts - they were bad, worse than the smell of decomposing rodents from Murtles arse. I now found another way to clear a room in seconds, other than me talking.

I knew things were bad when there was about 30 seconds between thinking lavatory thoughts, and needing to be there. But it was monsoon season and one night I woke up and scrabbled to find the torch, my waterproof jacket and run to the guest house latrine. I did not make it, but made a huge mess in the process. I remember being delirious, cold, wet and crying to myself that all I wanted to do was get home but I could not change my flight and had a few more weeks of being stuck in India. Thankfully the monsoon rain was so heavy that I did not need an additional cold shower to clean myself.

We progressed up the Kulu Valley to Dharmasala, the town where the Dalai Lama and lots of Tibetan exiles live. At the guest house we stayed in the proprietor quickly guessed I had Gardia - the smell coming from me was clear indication. She told me I needed Yeshi Dhonden, I had no idea what this was. She pointed at a map and sent me off.

I ended up in a room with a weird mixture of middle class Indians, some
professional Western hypochondriacs (from their appearance) and street people. I was still unsure as to what I was letting myself in for.

Eventually I was invited into a room with tiny old Bhuddist monk and a much younger monk. The old chap was Yeshi, it turns out he is the Dalai Lama's doctor, treats the Monaco Royal family and Richard Gere (amongst other clients). The diagnosis was odd, they asked for my symptoms, took my pulse from multiple places, my palm and tongue were read, and they needed to know the date, place and time of my birth.

Diagnosis was then made and I was given some medicines, some were a brown dusty powder - looked like mud that came in a rough paper wrap. Others were little balls that looked like rabbit droppings, others were more rabbit poo, but wrapped in silk, tied with a silk thread and sealed with a wax seal. I was told to take these with hot water and chew them at various hours throughout the day.

Within 3 days the symptoms had started to abate, within 5 I was able to carry on traveling. I had been told of the one western medicine for the condition, banned in most of the world because it is so carcinogenic, plus it nukes your stomach fauna so you have to slowly rebuild the bacteria to be able to eat normally. I was grateful that this was not needed to clear up my symptoms.

Once back in the UK I had to be tested, and was all clear.

A picture of Yeshi

CSB yadda yadda

Genes

you must spread etc

Are all cycling jeans skinny or standard cut for legs?

I would like to try a pair with a boot cut.

Not too worried about the luminous stripe on the inside as I use lights, but some crotch reinforcement or whatever would be good.

dead joe for president!!!

(can't call someone a cnut and then get all sensitive when they come back at you?!)

Levis can >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Fancy jeans for the weekend and £8 primarks cut off above or below the knee + belt for your lock job done.

next thing we'll have an I <3 louis vuiton/ralph lauren bikes thread.....

£80 for a pair of Levi jeans.. you are joking, right?
on closer inspection at LMNH i thought sorry I don't get it..

i agree with Josh, Levi's are shite.. abit like pepsi
ASOS and Primark for denim.. so's i can buy Assos and Rapha
for the bike riding

photoben (funny my phone spelled your name as photogenic) where were you at the coven thing? I was there too, but didn't see you or Claira.

I am also photogenic.

Yup we were there, but left at about 8.30 to go to the redbull thang.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about - coven/red bull studios.

Hehe, photobenic.

https://www.lfgss.com/thread84162.html

Hehe, photobenic.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Oliver Schick again.

Nice one. Should be my twitter name.

photoben (funny my phone spelled your name as photogenic) where were you at the coven thing? I was there too, but didn't see you or Claira.

Rep Dimi instead.

Cant believe i missed this. Vid looks good, might have to Cop a pair of jeans myself.

I'm not trying to be a dick here but it will sound that way but I wanted to talk shit on a shit product so I did, I don't think you need to hold a product to diss it when the marketing is total BS.

My stand against Levi's throwing their money around didn't need to be expressed explicitly, I think for regular readers it was fairly obvious what I was doing because they have knowledge of stuff I've written in the past and know that I don't take stuff seriously, at all, ever.

And on an earlier point, my opinion does count for brands because I have a sizeable following, just as the opinion of this forum counts, you guys can pretty much make or break a product's reputation in a single thread because of the strength of your google rankings.

Sounds like someone trying really hard to defend themselves instead of acknowledging that perhaps people might be criticial of someone slagging off a product they've never used.

Get over yourself. What is it people who start a blog, get a few followers and suddenly develop a ridiculous sense of self-importance?

Levi's make shite products. They can't be trusted to make garments to the same standard they used to years ago and their premium ranges (LVC, Made & Crafted etc.) are hideously overpriced. The LVC jeans are ok but not remotely worth their £215 price tag. They are first and foremost a brand, not a clothing manufacturer. This commuter series is obviously unbridled bandwagon-jumping. Fuck them.

THIS. Say what you will about Rapha but they know how to deal with their customers (and potential custom).

FACT

This is obviously unbridled bandwagon-jumping.

I never thought I'd see that posted on a forum about fixed gear bikes