NATHAN RENNIE - The Inside Line Podcast 37

All-time DH brawler, Nathan Rennie, kicks off The Inside Line for 2019. HECK YES!

sspomer
1/8/2019 10:13pm
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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.

 

Bryn Atkinson entertaining Rennie, Sam Hill and Jared Graves at Sea Otter 2003, their debut race on the Iron Horse Madcatz team. They must be laughing about sleeping on the floor.
Rennie flat-pedal one-foot flatty on the Sea Otter MTX course in 2003.
Rennie at the Calgary World Cup in 2004.
Rennie filming for Kranked 7 in Scotland
Canberra World Champs
Pure brute Rennie steeze.

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JimEG
6 years ago
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.
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dubiousdesigns
6 years ago
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.
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jjperko
6 years ago
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.
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Mwood
6 years ago
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!
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spazo
6 years ago
That’s was sick!

You’d gotta be born n bred Aussie to fully understand, fukn google translate isn’t gunna work!
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Sven Martin
6 years ago
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....
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GotSean
5 years ago
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!
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Moralhero
6 years ago
Wow, aren't you an @sshole. If you cared about the sport you would understand the history. But that might require too much effort.
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skelldify
6 years ago
Look, I'm happy your friend made a podcast, but there's a "World Cup Overall Winner" every year. Not legendary.
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Sven Martin
6 years ago
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?
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dubiousdesigns
6 years ago
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"
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bradleyjreece
6 years ago
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.
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Oz_Taylor
6 years ago
Why are you here?

15+ years ago Rennie was doing things on a bike that you could only dream of. You ignorant fool.
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bizutch
6 years ago
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
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Oz_Taylor
6 years ago
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!
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krisrasmus
6 years ago
It's gonna be hard for me to save this one for my road trip down to the Oz Trails next week
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sspomer
6 years ago
yeah, how good was that! w/o spoiling the interview, i was baffled by the "support" rennie said he got on that team.
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spazo
6 years ago
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!
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bradleyjreece
6 years ago
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!
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Ahab
6 years ago
Holy shit. The Inside Line podcast I didn't know I needed.

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