All-time DH brawler, Nathan Rennie, kicks off The Inside Line for 2019. HECK YES!
Nathan Rennie, Australian downhill racing legend, joins us on The Inside Line podcast this week. Rennie was the 2003 World Cup Downhill overall champ and made his mark on racing as a steely-eyed competitor with a penchant for post-race antics and sometimes trouble. Damian Breach sits down with the big brawler of the early 2000's to discuss what he's been up to for the last 10 years. Topics include career highlights with teams like Qranc, Yeti, Iron Horse and the Santa Cruz Syndicate, lessons learned, bike technology of days gone by and how he transitioned to being, as he puts it, Dad Guy. Always honest, always a competitor, we hope you enjoy this episode with a true game changer of our sport.
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JimEG
1/10/2019 7:29 PM
One Ghost
1/14/2019 11:09 PM
dubiousdesigns
1/10/2019 2:33 PM
In the bonus section on NWD 4 or five he goes on a road trip around Oz with Grant Allen, Aaron Chase and a couple of others I can't remember... Maybe Dave Watson?
Anyway, dude busts out backflips and jumps way before they became the norm. He wasn't just racer styles, he was really all round.
jjperko
1/10/2019 4:10 PM
I've got an old DVD of that trip somewhere.
Remember him getting towed down a street at 90kph before hopping a gutter, carving a dirt turn, throwing in a couple of pedals and hitting a 70ft freestyle mx ramp.
Mwood
1/10/2019 9:36 AM
cofattire
1/10/2019 9:17 AM
integralnz
1/10/2019 1:25 AM
Colin McCarthy
1/9/2019 9:11 PM
spazo
1/9/2019 6:34 PM
That’s was sick!
You’d gotta be born n bred Aussie to fully understand, fukn google translate isn’t gunna work!
jive turkey
1/10/2019 5:55 AM
piggy
1/15/2019 6:57 AM
EBlackwell
1/9/2019 5:28 PM
Sven Martin
1/9/2019 5:15 PM
One of the few and true legends of our sport.

In his reference to sleeping on tiles in 2003 while on Madcatz, they used to come up to us time to time in Laguna beach and have a luxury weekend away. We had mattresses, pillows and carpets to sleep on....
bizutch
1/15/2019 12:23 PM
GotSean
3/27/2019 8:44 PM
Best years ever and couldn't have succeeded without the support of legends like you @Sven
Sam, Jacy and I were just talking the other day about these days amongst other amazing times.
Wish we could roll back the clock and do it all over again- thanks for your support!
skelldify
1/9/2019 3:58 PM
Wow, another legend with a meh resume, that no one has ever heard of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Rennie
Moralhero
1/9/2019 4:13 PM
thejake
1/9/2019 7:06 PM
Moralhero
1/9/2019 7:58 PM
skelldify
1/10/2019 7:23 AM
Sven Martin
1/10/2019 11:09 AM
dubiousdesigns
1/10/2019 2:30 PM
Hahahaha! AIS testing was awesome!
"What sort of sprint training do you do?"
"Well, see there's a big double at my place, if I don't sprint, I'll die"
piggy
1/15/2019 6:58 AM
bradleyjreece
1/9/2019 7:37 PM
Oz_Taylor
1/9/2019 11:35 PM
Why are you here?
15+ years ago Rennie was doing things on a bike that you could only dream of. You ignorant fool.
bizutch
1/13/2019 12:03 PM
For what it's worth to you (and I dont expect to change your opinion) , I raced the same races as him during the days when the World Cup was not as big financially as the NORBA Nationals, where the pro DH guys raced all weekend long in DH & Dual Slalom/Dual/4Cross & weren't given rides back to the top. Tracks were dangerous garbage and all of them were VERY dangerous and the bikes were still garbage and death traps themselves.
Compounding it, he outweighed EVERYONE by a mile. He was a giant & the bikes were so lethal under him, he lost a ton of Nationals and World Cup races because the equipment he was on was terrible. He was sponsored by IRC Tires. They flatted constantly under a light rider and I think he was something like 225lbs???
He was also more light on his bike and could do BMX tricks like a circus freak. He'd jump a monster double, land on the rear, transfer to the front wheel and actually jump the double off his front wheel, land it on his front and go back to a manual.
He was THE most talented rider on the circuit, the biggest physically & yet light as a panther.
Wish people could see what he was doing back then in person
Oz_Taylor
1/9/2019 3:02 PM
depeche4
1/9/2019 2:55 PM
Bobodaclown
1/9/2019 2:24 PM
Yes!
Cannot wait to listen to this one, got to save it for a good drive!
krisrasmus
1/9/2019 12:31 PM
AdamO
1/9/2019 10:56 AM
That-Norco-Dude
1/9/2019 8:37 AM
Qranc Team - Their segment in "Down" was sick. Yes, I'm old enough to know that.
https://youtu.be/zdfS8eLQeL0?t=792
sspomer
1/9/2019 8:46 AM
That-Norco-Dude
1/9/2019 9:24 AM
spazo
1/9/2019 6:46 PM
Agreed. It’d be nice if those who capitalized on his natural ability could pool together and fix that “red dot” so that he could crush it at the masters!
Fabien better be there!
bradleyjreece
1/9/2019 7:43 PM
Ahab
1/9/2019 8:07 AM