WITH a new name, new sponsors but the same team ethos the amateur British squad who shook up the track world cup last year are ready to go again.

Team KGF won the team pursuit in the Belarus round of last winter's World Cup, and their performances were enough to see Great Ayton's Charlie Tanfield and Dan Bigham invited to train with Great Britain.

The Derby-based team will return this winter as Huub WattBike and once again pit their wits against the best in the world.

"It's not, 'Let's just do the same thing again'," team manager and rider Bigham said. "That's boring, right? Nobody wants to just repeat themselves. We want to do it better."

KGF's story last winter was both a romantic tale of scrappy underdogs, living and training together in digs and working with minimal support, and one of endless innovation.

Bigham, an aerodynamics expert who has worked in Formula One for Mercedes, is obsessed with finding what he calls not marginal gains but 'massive gains'.

With Olympic qualification points on the line in this year's World Cup, he knows the competition level will be up, and the time of three minutes 56 seconds that won the team pursuit in Belarus will not cut it.

"I sat down and did a bit of maths and I think we need a 3:53," Bigham said. "So it was back to the drawing board. To improve by three seconds each rider needs to find 24 watts.

"Whether that comes from physiology, training, nutrition, clothing, wheels, it doesn't matter. We need 24 watts and then we're on for that 3:53."

The team are confident they have found them.

"We might actually have achieved it just from the new skinsuits alone," Bigham said.

Charlie Tanfield and Bigham were both part of the British team at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn and the England team at the Commonwealth Games on the back of KGF's achievements, with Tanfield now on British Cycling's Olympic programme.

It proved a more frustrating experience for Bigham, who did not enjoy the environment at the National Cycling Centre.

While he said there are "a lot of great people doing great things", this endless innovator butted heads with a system he found too restrictive.

"Never meet your heroes," he said.

Charlie may be gone, but his brother Harry Tanfield will ride with the team this season, having joined up midway through last winter. He joins the familiar faces of Jonny Wale, Jacob Tipper and John Archibald - brother of Olympic champion Katie.

Harry is coming off a strong season on the road with Canyon Eisberg - highlighted by his opening stage victory at the Tour de Yorkshire - which has earned him a move up to the WorldTour with Katusha-Alpecin next year.

His biggest ambitions are on the road but the 23-year-old sees the track as a useful tool - and a fun place to spend the winter.

"A lot of the high intensity of it transferred over really well," he said. "I had a good year on the road and I attribute a lot of that to the track in terms of maximum power."

Where track cycling fits in his future remains to be seen, but he has plenty of ideas - including an attempt at the Hour Record, something his new Katusha team-mate Alex Dowsett held until Sir Bradley Wiggins broke it in 2015.

That can wait for now though with the focus purely on the upcoming weeks. Last year, KGF spent as much time scrambling for funding to get to the next round of the World Cup as they did training.

This year, funding is in place for the first four rounds - starting in Paris on October 18 - and the British national championships.

The element of surprise is gone, but the team have shown the rest of the world what they can do once and have the confidence they can do so again.

"We have a lot more data and a lot better sponsorship," Tanfield said. "With an actual staff now we are in no way underprivileged. Performance needs to come with that."