Empella - anyone know much about them?

[DCLane]

I'm aware that Empella make cyclocross frames, but I'm collecting a road frame on Monday. It looks like this:

Has anyone come across them before? I'm presuming it's mid-2000's given the Octalink (?) bottom bracket and groupset on the previous entire bike advert.

I'm aware they're a little rare, usually making cross frames, but I like the orange colour. Given we've also got a BeOne Raw Comp being built atm (photo below) they should be a decent pair of training bikes.

 

[Ivo]

Empella is the brand of a medium sized shop in Erp, in the Brabant province of the Netherlands. The owner of the shop is Ad van Empel.
https://www.empella.nl/
They used to stock interesting steel frames but have started to use generic carbon frames in badge engineering style.

 

[BalkanExpress]

The cyclocross bikes are lovely. A friend has one of these


https://www.steel-vintage.com/empella-turbo-classic-cyclocross-bike-detail

 

[User269]

Presumably comes from the same factory in Taiwan as nearly all other carbon frames?

 

[DCLane]

Frame's been collected but it's very small - looks like an XS rather than a small/medium so it won't be staying