| Team information | |
|---|---|
| UCI code | HBH |
| Registered | United Kingdom |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Disbanded | 2009 |
| Discipline(s) | Road with also riders active on the track |
| Status | UCI Women's Team |
| Bicycles | Boardman Bike[1] |
| Key personnel | |
| General manager | Dave Brailsford |
| 2008 Team Halfords Bikehut | |
|---|---|
| UCI Team ranking | 10th |
| Season victories | |
| One-day races | Road: 4 Track: 3 |
| Stage race overall | 0 |
| Stage race stages | 2 |
| Best ranked rider | Nicole Cooke (4th) |
Team Halfords Bikehut was a 2008 UCI elite women's cycling team based in the United Kingdom. The team was formed in January 2008 with Dave Brailsford, performance director of British Cycling, the general manager. It had been a pro/national team mooted as the first full British professional women's team[2] but there were two men in the team (Rob Hayles and Tom Southam). The team was in 2009 not an UCI Women's Teams anymore and consisted of a mix of mountain bikers and road racers (mainly men): Rob Hayles, Ed Clancy, Ian Wilkinson, Andy Tennant, Mark McNally, Rob Partridge, Seb Batchelor, David Fletcher, Annie Last, Sharon Laws, Ian Bibby. The team disbanded ahead of the 2010 season, with a number of riders moving to the Scottish-based Endura Racing team.
The team helped train some of the UK's medal-winning cyclists such as Nicole Cooke, who said: "Setting up Team Halfords was crucial to my success,".[3]