The Crossover: Anneke Beerten and Ronnie Renner - Video
They both have a passion for riding bikes, one is a multiple World Champion on a mountain bike and the other a multi X-games gold medalist. What better way to share their passion as teammates and go shredding together on mountain bikes and dirt bikes all on the same day! It's definitely the best of both worlds, making each other faster, sharing the experience, pushing each other and just having fun.
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Anneke has been riding bikes from the age of four, and in the last three years she has picked up on riding moto to add some variety to her training program for mountain biking. The mountain bike skills definitely come in handy on the dirt bike! Ronnie has been pulling the throttle since he was four and started seriously riding mountain bikes four years ago for cross training, which led to a love for bike parks, DH racing, and freeriding.
Ronnie and Anneke both being GT athletes, thought it would be cool to give you guys a little snapshot of them getting ready for a new season of racing mountain bikes and defending X-games gold medals. Watch them rip on the mountain and the moto track!
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Photos by Bill Freeman.
MENTIONS: @GTBicycles
The Battle is on, let's see what you got!
Anneke has been riding bikes from the age of four, and in the last three years she has picked up on riding moto to add some variety to her training program for mountain biking. The mountain bike skills definitely come in handy on the dirt bike! Ronnie has been pulling the throttle since he was four and started seriously riding mountain bikes four years ago for cross training, which led to a love for bike parks, DH racing, and freeriding.
Ronnie and Anneke both being GT athletes, thought it would be cool to give you guys a little snapshot of them getting ready for a new season of racing mountain bikes and defending X-games gold medals. Watch them rip on the mountain and the moto track!
If you can't load/unload your own bike, you shouldn't be at the track!
It doesn't matter what sport Renner is participating in, you can bet his tools for the job will be orange.
Neither riders are exactly spring chickens in their sport, so cross over sports are the perfect tool to stay stoked on riding and staying sharp.
 | Riding moto is a great way to work on my upper body fitness, riding lines and getting used to the speed. A lot of this I can translate immediately to the mountain bike. - Beerten |
| I tried to put a wheel in on Anneke from time to time at the track, cause I knew she was going to be clowning me on the mountain! - Renner |
| It's been amazing riding with Ronnie, he teaches met a lot on the dirt bike and it is such a joy to watch him pop wheelies, whip and roost corners like no other! - Beerten |
| I'm not going to lie, the first time I went riding Moto with Ronnie I was nervous as hell but thank god I knew how to put the bike into first gear and tried to act cool on my first couple of laps. - Beerten |
| I watch Anneke improve every lap that she's on a dirt bike. Super impressive. She could easily be competitive with the Pro women in a short amount of time, which is killer for only riding for a few years. - Renner |
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| Even though I'm known for freestyle and freeriding, a part of my heart is still at the track. Jumping is rad, but there is no better feeling than blasting a berm. - Renner |
| I love the fact that Ronnie has a loose style on the mountain bike and he has a great eye for scooping out the fast lines, this makes following him down the trails a whole lot of fun. - Beerten |
| I expected Anneke to crush me on the uphills but was super impressed with how hard she charged the technical rock sections and didn't even hesitate on the drops and jumps. - Renner |
| I'm definitely guilty of trying to whip my mountain bike over anything that gives me even a second of airtime. I don't care if it's ugly or not, cause it's fun! - Renner |
Catch me if you can.
What better way to end such an epic day with both wheels in the dirt watching the Californian sunset.
Photos by Bill Freeman.
MENTIONS: @GTBicycles
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That's the spirit Ronnie!
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all in the next doonies
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Not sure when she really started but I recall that she already had a bike she called a "mini-bike". I'm not into this kind of stuff but it looked much bigger than the small motorbikes Peaty and Nigel Page were riding in the Earthed movie. Maybe she got more serious three years ago and got a bigger motorbike, but I wouldn't say it was all new to her. That said, I'm not familiar with Ronnie Renner but he surely must have ridden regular mountainbikes before as well, right?
Burbank local here, gotta head out there to check it out
from socal sharing trails without some bs "they aren't your trails" .. holy shit