Who are you?
T: My name is Big Red Ted Tempany.
D: I’m Duncan MacKenzie.
What are you doing?
T: We’re sitting on a couch like Bob & Doug.
D: Dude y’ know what I mean y’hoser.
What were you doing five minutes ago...
D: Ordering a...
Ummm ok ten minutes ago...
T: We erected some towers for the Jumbo Tron Drop for the Crankworx Festival.
D: What we’re building is...it’s a step up jump onto a wooden ramp that’s going to jump over a big TV.
T: We are?
D: So everybody can see...for Crankworx.
Who drew the blueprint?
D: Oh the man John Cowan himself.
T: The man the myth.
D: The man the myth the legend John Cowan.
T: Other wise known as JC
D: <laughs> or Mooseman. I’m pretty sure he drew it at the GLC patio one night, but you never know.
Is it the same as last year?
D: No a little bit different that last year. Last year was 3 step ups and this year it’s bigger but not with the step ups
Did you guys work on any of the Crankworx features last year?
D: Ya I had a hand in building some of them.
T: I was actually in West Virginia building the Bike Magazine Monster Park .
What kind of hours are you working?
T: We’ve been doing 12 hour days since the beginning of May.
D: This one will take four days probably. Three or four days with the bottom stunt.
T: We should be done before noon.
D: <laughs>
The Boneyard is pretty intimidating to beginners - can you break it down?
D: Can’t touch this.
T: Like boneyard for dummies? Point tire downhill.
D: The jumps are all big, they’re all pro line jumps so it’s not something that a beginner rider is really going to want to go do but the idea is just to find your own line through it and pick your own so you’re not following trail. You can kind of be creative.
T: That was a good answer. I just have nothing to add.
D: That’s pretty good eh? I’m pretty stoked that I came up with that.
How did you become professional bike park builders?
T: Short attention span is definitely a requirement.
D: What?
Any last words?
T: We hope you enjoy the story and have a nice day.
D: We’ve enjoyed this story as much as we hope you will.
T: My shout out’s to everyone up there keeping it real rockin a moustache.
D: Ya Ted said it all y’know? Just come ride the park and don’t hurt yourself.
T: Look before you leap.
D: Get out there and build. Everybody can build a trail – make it a good one.
T: All you riders out there who like to grab a mitt full of rear brake and lock it up so you can tell the trail guys that there’s so many rocks on the trails...think about why there’s so many rocks on the trails you skidders.
D: And quit braiding the trail. Stick to the trail and quit making shortcuts.
T: Braid your hair - don’t braid the trail. Braid your mustache.
D: Moostachio!
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