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Old 03-11-08, 10:47 AM
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The sand helps prevent splitting. It keeps the pressure inside the culm even, otherwise it will try to crimp and then split.

Four years is not much longer of a wait time than for a Vanilla. Form grown--it would be an astounding bike.
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