Former US under-23 time trial nationwide champion Michael Garrison will be part of forces with former US junior street race winner Cole Davis for the SpeedStudio p/b Basso staff in 2026, the duo combining for street, mountain bike and gravel competitions within the US and overseas.
Garrison launched an impartial racing programme two years in the past, MGR p/b +SpeedStudio, for competing in a number of disciplines after 4 seasons on the street with Hagens Berman Axeon growth staff. He had sporadic success, like second general within the 2024 SpeedWeek criterium sequence with a mixture of prime outcomes off-road and one-day street occasions in 2025, reminiscent of Homegrown Gravel and Spartanburg Criterium victories, and noticed the necessity for extra help in matches towards sturdy groups.
The 2 will be part of forces for a programme that “blends elite efficiency with inventive manufacturing”, with continued help from Georgia-based SpeedStudio, a inventive design store that manages elite athletes and creates storytelling and unites manufacturers with creators in a personal membership group. Basso Bikes is the brand new presenting sponsor for the staff, which Garrison famous had been making a heavy push within the US marketplace for their various fleet.
“SpeedStudio is rethinking what it means to be knowledgeable biking group,” mentioned Alessandro Basso, CEO of Basso Bikes. “They’re constructing one thing that merges tradition and competitors. Their racing model evokes creativity, and that creativity attracts new followers to biking. For us, that’s precisely the form of vitality the game wants.”
The 2026 competitors calendar was taking form for SpeedStudio p/b Basso, and Garrison confirmed there have been daring targets for the two-rider squad.
Davis will look to earn one in every of three wildcards on the Life Time Grand Prix, a group of off-road races within the US. For Garrison, he’ll head to Europe for Santa Vall and The Traka. Each look to compete at VIA Crit in London and ZuriCrit in Zurich, together with different ‘cornerstone’ occasions reminiscent of Tulsa Robust, USPro Highway Nationals and Massive Sugar Gravel.
“We’re planning one thing tremendous formidable for subsequent yr. Cole and I each come from a staff tradition, and we did not have probably the most typical pathway in any respect. So by means of this program, we wish him to even have decisions, like semi-privateers.
“At Sea Otter, we’ll focus extra for him, then I can play extra of a B roll. We’re gonna go from Sea Otter to Athens Twilight, there’s 48 hours in between. We wish to win each. We wish to blow the doorways off the world,” Garrison mentioned.
The personal membership aspect with SpeedStudio, based mostly within the Inman Park space of Atlanta, has about 50 members to this point. Garrison, who lives in close by Decatur, mentioned he would proceed to be engaged with member experiences all year long, from Wahoo Crank It Up indoor occasions to outside rides within the north Georgia mountains.