Emmelle Aspid 24 speed, cant find any pictures online, any details about it?
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bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
Emmelle (ML) was the brand owned by the parts wholesaler Moore Large, who went bust a couple of years ago. They also owned the trade cycle cash-and-carry H&J.
They marketed bikes at the lower end of the industry, from BSO up to the occasional cromo frames with shimano exage or mountain LX kit.
Your Aspide is down at the BSO end, with pressed steel hubs and unicrown suspension fork, plastic coated steel cranks, seat clip and almost no aluminium anywhere at all apart from the rims.
Probably from around 1996, and costing as little as £99!
This is a survivor for sure, most of these bikes got ridden a bit, rained on, and needed more spending on them than they cost in the first place, so ended up as scrap.
They marketed bikes at the lower end of the industry, from BSO up to the occasional cromo frames with shimano exage or mountain LX kit.
Your Aspide is down at the BSO end, with pressed steel hubs and unicrown suspension fork, plastic coated steel cranks, seat clip and almost no aluminium anywhere at all apart from the rims.
Probably from around 1996, and costing as little as £99!
This is a survivor for sure, most of these bikes got ridden a bit, rained on, and needed more spending on them than they cost in the first place, so ended up as scrap.
thanks for the info! i rode it a couple times and idk its really nice to cruise keeps its speed and easy to gain speed again, its growing on me but it could just be me being blinded by its retro look
thanks again though, i searched and couldnt find anything anywhere
bikeworkshop
Old School Grand Master
The geometry of this period of bike is absolutely bang on for an all purpose bikethanks for the info! i rode it a couple times and idk its really nice to cruise keeps its speed and easy to gain speed again, its growing on me but it could just be me being blinded by its retro look
Emmelle did use the current geometry - so although the components are low quality, if you overlook the weight, the handling will be nice
joglo
Senior Retro Guru
@bikeworkshop good comments!
To me seeing that a bike has an extra plate/mount for a bicycle stand is a typical criteria to not consider it, because stuff like this has been typically only used for low entry MTB models.
BTW: its hard to see at the pictures, but there are two black dots at the seat tube between the front mech and bottom bracket.
Has someone drilled holes for unknown reasons or what is that?
The fork is not a Scott or Clark Kent model, but a cheap Taiwanese copy.
Maybe also from Lung Li, a slick stix, combination of right unicrown style fork crown but brake arch from the other models
Still wanted to share also a link, someone has built a nice ride on basis of another Emmelle
https://fotos.mtb-news.de/p/582240
To me seeing that a bike has an extra plate/mount for a bicycle stand is a typical criteria to not consider it, because stuff like this has been typically only used for low entry MTB models.
BTW: its hard to see at the pictures, but there are two black dots at the seat tube between the front mech and bottom bracket.
Has someone drilled holes for unknown reasons or what is that?
The fork is not a Scott or Clark Kent model, but a cheap Taiwanese copy.
Maybe also from Lung Li, a slick stix, combination of right unicrown style fork crown but brake arch from the other models
Still wanted to share also a link, someone has built a nice ride on basis of another Emmelle
https://fotos.mtb-news.de/p/582240
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