Emelle - How bad are these?

[Marmite King]

Ohhhhhhhh yes !!! I did notice it was in Carlisle.

Now I think its time for the confession............this one is mine. I recovered from my Dad`s place.

It`s had the once over and I`m punting it on the bay. I wondered how long it would take before it came up here with the word `Retro` in the title.

Now for these being a POS and being in good nick from lack of use, I`m sorry guys I have to defend this particular bike as I can assure you it had plenty of use on and off road and covered more miles than I care to remember...................it just had an owner that looked after it .

 

[LeeDevelopment]

Now for these being a POS and being in good nick from lack of use, I`m sorry guys I have to defend this particular bike as I can assure you it had plenty of use on and off road and covered more miles than I care to remember...................it just had an owner that looked after it .

Aye, I suppose it might of been worse, it might have been a Tensor!

 

[NickD]

Emmelle?

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!"

C'mon, don't be silly, Emmelle, Townsend, Falcon, no no and thrice no!!

My first MTB was a townsend, with Reynolds 501 tubing and a 200 or 300 Exage groupset on it.

I ended up giving it to my dad, and I borrowed it this christmas. TBH it was fine, not a bad ride at all.

 

[Grannygrinder]

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Impossible to copy paint, and a little on the heavy side.

 

[BoyBurning]

I wished I’d picked the bottom entry Kona.

That sounds painful if you ask me...

 

[Xesh]

This definitely looks like an Emmelle Classic 300 to me, the 300 LX Exage gear that`s on it gives it away.......

Just what I was going to say. Lower in the range was the Classic 200 and the 400/500 was the model up. I seem to remember similar colour schemes but using red, blue and green (not together :roll: ).

These were the next best thing to a Marin if you couldn't stretch to £300 bitd. Not bad for the money. Emmelle was Moore Large's in house brand (hence the name ML ) who were also importers of Haro.

They were far better than the later bikes that ML brought out which tarnished their reputation imo.

 

[tintin40]

I wished I’d picked the bottom entry Kona.

That sounds painful if you ask me...

:shock: Very. still take the seat off and away you go

 

[D_XZ]

I used to lust after my mates Emelle Corniche in th early 90's! Indexed Suntour Accushift gears and green and orange paint job - lovely.

In my defence my own bike at that time was an Apollo Avalanche, a mild steel, friction geared, 23" monster! When I was 14 I couldn't lift it over styles and wooden gates by myself!!!

 

[brocklanders023]

The top end Emmelle's looked like exotica compared to the Apollo Blizzard I wanted around '89 . Luckily I saw sense, saved up, and got a Saracen Tufftrax instead.

 

[stevej77]

Would love to see what sort of a reaction this would get at a trail centre. Ideas, ideas :twisted:

Just last week I saw a bloke on a red version of this very bike going round the Red trail at Llandegla!! He was proper old school; Anorak, specs and a beard. Ace.

I don't know if he actually made it the whole way around though