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SAND IN THE TRANSMISSION

THE HARDER YOU PUSH ON IT, THE DEEPER THE CONCAVE GETS… IT’S MORE LIKE A BOAT THAN A SURFBOARD

“The dream is to have a buoyant surfboard flexing like a Greenough spoon. For Greenoughphiles, that’s the Holy Grail. That’s what we want.”

It’s a late Sunday night and I’ve got Ryan Lovelace on a crackly Skype line, trying to grasp his words about the 7’10” quad, a freak he birthed at the suggestion of George Greenough.

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