"I'm thrilled to be starting this new chapter in my career with Intense Cycles and my teammates Jack and Neko. As a rider and team owner, I'm looking forward to starting such a legendary race program. We've put together a great team of people and so I'm looking forward to the years ahead."

With the latter sentence, Gwin reveals that it will be a longer-term collaboration.

The "Intense Factory Racing Team" rides on Kenda tires as well as wheels, cranks and chain guides from e*thirteen. Suspension forks and shocks come from Fox, the brakes and possibly also the prototype gears from TRP, saddles and seat posts are supplied by SDG, Renthal the cockpit and Odi the grips.

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