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Pedro

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  1. I have it at maximum when going at over 100kmh, with the plugs on. Without the plugs that's way too loud. I have no limits set, so it goes at full volume. I have tried an assortment of plugs over time, silicone ones with filter were nice because they lasted a while and you could easily wash them but they would often not seal correctly and were quite annoying to then fix over and over since I'd only notice at starting the engine, then went to foam ones because they isolate the best, and tried custom made ones. The custom ones were made in a place that makes hearing aids, and were complete shit, they simply fall off, I think they might have switched moulds with other client, they're crap and I cried over that money. So went back to foam ones, they're the comfiest over long rides and the most reliable, I buy these from Ohropax and am quite happy with it. I also carry a mini weatherman on my jacket, and use the small pliers to fish them out if they slide in too far
  2. I never stopped using earplugs, it does quieten down the level of music but also filters out a lot of the noise.
  3. I got my system because I used to do 300km on the motorway on friday afternoons and I'd miss out on work calls, seemed like I spent the week chasing clients and all of them would decide to place orders as soon as I got on the bike and headed home, even though I had to slow way down on the motorway to be able to even exchange a few sentences it made all the difference. Then one day I put music through it, and now I couldn't imagine going on a long ride without it. It does get addictive.
  4. I think it'll sound very disappointing to listen to speech on a helmet, music might be ok but honestly for speech you'll find yourself having to actively concentrate on what you're listening to properly understand it. Then, at motorway speeds it´ll become a blurred mess unless you have either a very clean wind on a naked bike or a big screen like on a touring one. I use Sena's aftermarket kit for Schuberth, and still use earplugs for protection and comfort. In my opinion plugs help reduce the noise and the nasty sound of helmet speakers, the sounds come through a little cleaner even though obviously less loud. On country roads the speakers on full power would be too loud inside the helmet, with plugs in it's right the loudness I want. On country roads that's ok and great, on the motorway it's shit unless I put the original big screen on, which I don't.
  5. I don't think you do. You have a nice one and choose to leave it home when going on a trip
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    Important!

    It’s hipster, people pay more for this nowadays
  7. Pedro

    Important!

    Looks like 20 years ago
  8. A boxer viewed from the front or back, that’s what you want for a clock
  9. Dirtbike engines are ugly, though except maybe the XR
  10. There’s this spot in Nazare in Portugal where they have the biggest ever surged wave in the world, something like more than 35 meters now, it’s silly big ocean! Well, ever since it became worldwide news there are people being washed away every year by standing on the forbidden path to take a selfie.
  11. I meant taking a walk on the wild side, that was more of a tripping on the sidewalk crossing the street
  12. My grandad always used to say that most of who try it, like it and don’t go back He wasn’t talking about Harleys
  13. It’s not how gay you feel, it’s how much you like it I for one think they’re just the thing for an aging pensioner retiring abroad in the Mediterranean, a jap cruiser with metal buttons on the seat or a cb500, finally let go of that uptight UK way of be, live life, experience new things… la vida loca
  14. Does it tick or potato potato?
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    Pedro's food

    Just look what they do with Octopus, that’s not ok
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    Pedro's food

    We were never best friends with the spaniards, nor they ours, much more of an alliance between Portugal and England than to Spain. Oldest alliance ever! If you really talk to people on both sides you’ll find out we’re very different, don’t really know or care to know what happens on the other side of the border, except that they’re mostly chauvinist idiots.
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    Pedro's food

    Not really how I would put it, maybe more or less like the Scottish and English, if the English were louder
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    Pedro's food

    Spain is shit, really, there you go. There's a lot of food I hate in Spain. And why are you buying precooked frozen crap? Buy ingredients raw and fresh or raw and frozen when fresh, but unless you're buying something exotic that comes from far away there's really no need for it?
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    Pedro's food

    Not at all, it's perfectly nice cooked over coal with just salt. But it's naturally tough so a long cooking time is better, you could say the same about some beef. The video I posted uses the meat to give flavor to the rice primarily, it's the other way around, and the result is a very rich dish if make properly. We look at the UK in the same way with their sauces and bland stuff. Anyway, you have a pre steamed octopus in a bag, look forward to hear how that's better than something frozen from fresh and defrosted before cooking. Octopus is maybe only kind of meat that naturally works better frozen and defrosted for an unexperienced cook since it breaks some of the fibers and makes it softer. A bigger animal might be more flavorful but difficult to cook, it'll vary from hard to soft to hard again as it cooks. Regarding the olive oil, better quality is always better but there are very different flavors. Normally you'll find it stronger and a little more imposing if it comes from most of spain and lower portugal, from dry plains where it easy to plant in industrial farming resorting to intensive watering. Try some from a harsh climate and mountainous area and you still might not like it but the taste is completely different. Normally olive trees in new farming produce oil after 3 or 4 years of intensive watering, can't compare that with 200 year old trees that don't get watered.
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    Twat

    Bob's picture of you make it look like a much more serious water crossing
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    Pedro's food

    Boiled or steamed and served with paprika is very popular in Galicia, it's also plain and tasteless and boring as fuck, and does no justice to killing an octopus.
  22. Pedro

    Pedro's food

    Starting from raw, to make it tasty you need olive oil and garlic and small taters and the oven. That's not your thing until you try it properly done, you should. Do I understand correctly and is it already steamed and ready to eat? If all there is inside is water use that to make a properly nice rice, like so:
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