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![AARON GWIN GYPSY TALES PODCAST](http://intensecycles.com/cdn/shop/articles/Aaron_Gwin_Intense_Gypsy_Tales_Podcast_NEW.jpg?v=1636445358&width=1080)
Get yourself a drink and sit back and listen to almost four hours of chat from INTENSE Factory Racing’s Aaron Gwin on the Gypsy Tales podcast.
![ROCK AND ROLL WORLD CUP ROUNDS 5 & 6, SNOWSHOE, USA](http://intensecycles.com/cdn/shop/articles/BLOG_HOMEPAGE_Snowshoe_2021_Seth_Sherlock_Intense_1600.jpg?v=1632045931&width=1080)
Wham, bam, than you ma’am. No sooner had it started than the World Cup season was over. Just four short months for the world’s best downhill racers to prove themselves.
![WORLD CUP ROUND 4 LENZERHEIDE, SWITZERLAND](http://intensecycles.com/cdn/shop/articles/BLOG_HOMEPAGE_Intense_Lenzerheide_2021_Seth_Sherlock_1600.jpg?v=1630775819&width=1080)
Lenzerheide in Switzerland is a picture-perfect location, it’s chocolate box pretty, in fact it’s almost like walking into a child’s drawing of an alpine scene… but don’t be fooled!
![WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS VAL DI SOLE, ITALY](http://intensecycles.com/cdn/shop/articles/HOMEPAGE_Neko_Mulally_Intense_Val_di_Sole_2021_World_Champs_BLOG_Ale_1600px.jpg?v=1630254622&width=1080)
Val di Sole is a scary track. It’s steep, fast, littered with roots and rocks. It is no place for the faint hearted, especially with the added pressure of the World Champs.
![TOO HOT TO HANDLE: WORLD CUP #3 MARIBOR, SLOVENIA](http://intensecycles.com/cdn/shop/articles/Maribor_World_Cup_Neko_Mulally_2021_HOMEPAGE_BLOG.jpg?v=1629109209&width=1080)
High speed, bone dry, with blown-out corners full of wheel swallowing holes, web-like root sections, the infamous rock garden… Maribor was on!