Monday Conversation: Ronnie Renner August 06, 2007
So many great performances this weekend—33 champions
crowned at Loretta Lynn’s, RC in Moto X, Burkhart in X Games’
Supermoto, the freestylers, the Grand Prix winners at Namur—but
who to pick for a Monday Conversation?
A few months ago, Ronnie Renner was sitting in his garage in
Southern California, wondering aloud what the future held for him
in freestyle motocross. “I don’t really want to flip and I’m pretty
burned out on the contests,” said Renner, sitting on one of his
KTM motorcycles. “I’d love to do Step-Up in the X Games this
summer, but I think they have the five riders picked and I’m not
going to get in.”
But then fate stepped in. Ricky Carmichael, who had been invited
by the Summer X Games freestyle motocross committee to
compete in the Moto X Step Up at Summer X Games 13, politely
declined, deciding to rather concentrate on the new Moto X he
would be competing in at Summer X. Renner got the call—he was
in.
And he made the best of it. Before a sell-out crowd of nearly 
14,000 fans in the Staples Center, Renner employed a KTM450
four-stroke, much to the astonishment of his two-stroke
competition. What followed was a Doug Henry-like breakthrough
And he made the best of it. Before a sell-out crowd of nearly
for the thumper, as Renner blasted off for a leap of 33’ to win the
Moto X Step-Up Gold Medal over Brian Deegan, Matt Buyten,
Tommy Clowers and Jeremy McGrath. This morning, while he was
driving down the I-5 just north of San Diego, we talked to the
dancing fool of freestyle motocross.
click on 'ozzy go' to the interview on racerxill.com