NATHAN RENNIE - The Inside Line Podcast 36

Remember The Rennie Beast showing up to Downieville in 2007? And knocking it out on flat pedals and launching a huge powerful backflip huck off of the river ramp. Memorable. Beast.

yep, totally remember that!

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.

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.

If you listen closely he is also pretty darn eloquent behind all that party talk. He has a bit of wise sage to him as well. Really enjoyed. Also we need more old gordo images!

I still rock his signature 5.10's from time to time.

OG GC

can someone turn up the beard the talking is too loud

That’s was sick!

You’d gotta be born n bred Aussie to fully understand, fukn google translate isn’t gunna work!

I am not Aussie and I fully understood.

nah mate, ya didn't...

Best Inside Line podcast ever? Can't wait to buy this book!

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....

Poor sam. Only one sock. :D

Wow, another legend with a meh resume, that no one has ever heard of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Rennie

Wow, aren't you an @sshole. If you cared about the sport you would understand the history. But that might require too much effort.

Since when is “World Cup Overall Winner” meh on your resume?

Wut

Look, I'm happy your friend made a podcast, but there's a "World Cup Overall Winner" every year. Not legendary.

I guess by your logic since they crown a junior World Champ each year that doesn’t count either. Or having the highest power of any cyclist in all of Australia at the time either?

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"

Rennie is a fookin' legend. Wild man, powerhouse, racer, rider.

Gee, I hope you’re somehow being ironic...otherwise you have exemplified the notion keeping quiet and being thought a fool or opening one’s mouth and removing all doubt. You leave little room for doubt in this case.

Why are you here?

15+ years ago Rennie was doing things on a bike that you could only dream of. You ignorant fool.

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

Hey Rennie, if you need some photos for your book I have a few of you and Kovarik getting rowdy in Les Gets ;-) When you two partied, the whole place erupted. Wild times!

Legend. I would buy that book! Shit, I would even help him write it.

Yes!
Cannot wait to listen to this one, got to save it for a good drive!

It's gonna be hard for me to save this one for my road trip down to the Oz Trails next week

What a Legend! Would like to see that book one time...

Qranc Team - Their segment in "Down" was sick. Yes, I'm old enough to know that.

https://youtu.be/zdfS8eLQeL0?t=792

yeah, how good was that! w/o spoiling the interview, i was baffled by the "support" rennie said he got on that team.

Agreed. Learned alot in that interview. Thanks for getting it to us!

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!

There was talk of a sort of “legends” race on the comments on the Peaty interview on PB. If guys like Rennie, Kovarik, Peaty, CG, Nico, Barel, any of those guys put a season on for the masters, it would be awesome for us fans and probably a boon for both the industry and sport. C’mon guys do it. Maybe The Smiths will reunite, too!

Holy shit. The Inside Line podcast I didn't know I needed.