Drops Cycling – currently racing as Lifeplus Wahoo – Britain’s most successful and longest running UCI women’s team, is very sad to announce that the team will close at the end of the year.
Despite securing a full stable of premium product partners for 2025, the team announces it has been unable to sell the naming rights for a figure commensurate with the budget required for a UCI Pro Team Licence application.
The team’s aim has always been to progress to Pro Team level and ultimately become a World Tour team. With uncertainty surrounding the viability of the project at Continental level, it was stated that the team management no longer have the appetite to struggle to deliver their professional vision on a minimum budget at this largely unregulated level.
Reasons given are the ever rising cost of racing, loss of sponsor bonus income without TDFF participation, the recent bike thefts and an ongoing partnership dispute due to unpaid instalments, meaning the riders have sadly raced their last race in team colours.
Drops Cycling thanks the global fan base for their loyal support over the past nine years and sends the international peloton best wishes for the future.
