[1] He is the founder of Sockeloen, a company that designs and makes cycling socks, and of the Sockeloen Cycling Club as a means to promote mountain bike marathons and beach racing.

He himself was introduced to beach racing by his girlfriend Riejanne Markus, a professional cyclist.

[3] In 2021 Ockeloen followed the tyretracks of Laurens ten Dam and participated in Unbound Gravel.

[4] A year later Laurens ten Dam, Thomas Dekker, Ivar Slik and Ockeloen returned for a whole month of gravel races in the US.

[5][6][7] Later that year Ockeloen won a bronze medal in the Dutch national championships gravel race.