After a full season racing his Stoemper in the US, Ben Berden returns to Belgium to finish the year on home soil.
Coming soon, we’ll be doing an in-depth follow-up interview with Belgian racer Ben Berden (Ops Ale-Stoemper), who’s spent the entirety of the 2011 season racing all over the United States. For now, here’s the latest video on his season escapades. The Stoemper-sponsored neck-tatted pro may have been a stranger in a strange land, but he [...]
by Josh Liberles Stoemper, a new Springfield, Oregon-based cyclocross frame maker, has an interesting philosophy for launching a new brand: Hire a really fast, heavily tattooed Belgian, put a Belgian-inspired bike with a Flemish name underneath him, and bring him over to the States to turn some heads. David Alvarez, the business side of Stoemper, [...]