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Name: Stephen Barrett Crandall
Hometown: Ithaca Ny/ RVA

You've always been a creative type, from painting to making videos, building bikes, creating 'zines, organize new events, etc. is there any family background that lead you this way?
Steve Crandall: My family is awesome, so maybe that helped, but no one stands out in my family history as being artistic or anything. 

A while ago we started the Workshop Wednesday articles. They're about people doing their own thing in their own garage, of BMX people who have moved on and create stuff in whatever field. On the way to the X-Games in China we stopped by at an actual bicycle factory to see how BMX bikes are made. It's not quite the home garage, but let's make it fit in today's "workshop" article. Thanks to the people at G&P Cycle for showing me around. Interesting indeed how they make frames from simple steel pipes.

Name: Harold “McGoo” McGruther

Occupation: I’m the founding partner at Revolution Advertising, a creative services agency that caters to the BMX and motorcycle markets. We’ve been working on BMX accounts big and small since I founded the agency in 1991. In ’99 my partner Bill and I founded SNAFU with my old friend Sherry Shu in Taiwan. More recently our agency launched an online media resource for the underground chopper scene called ChopCult.com. 

Name: Tom Ritzenthaler
Occupation: I build BMX tracks. For the UCI and the rest of the world
Hometown: Blacklick, Ohio

For BMX people reading this, you're the official track builder for the UCI. What tracks have you worked on in 2010 to gvie people an idea of what you do and how much you travel building tracks?
Tom: Tracks this year, well shit, there was alot really. Alot of trips to Singapore (JR Olympics), Switzerland, Sweden,  Colombia (loved

Name: Paul de Jong
Hometown: Aarle-Rixtel, The Netherlands
Occupation: Owner Paul's Boutique BMX and PURE BMX Distribution

You've been running a BMX shop for almost 15 years now, how is that going?
Paul: Very good, it's better every year even with the crisis going on, experience is not paying the bills but it saves a lot of wasted money.

Name: Mike Laird
Hometown: Greenville, USA.
Occupation: Pro rider / ECC Metal
 
Rider or welder, what comes first for you today?
Mike: A couple of years ago it would have been rider, but today I'd say it's 50/50. They both pay the bills and I love them both in different ways.