Emmelle Aspid 24 speed, cant find any pictures online, any details about it?

[Vluurz]

i have an emmelle aspid 24 speed mountain bike when i try to google it nothing comes up, id like to know a bit more about it or such how much it would have been new etc as i think its unique and i personally havent seen another like it

 

[bikeworkshop]

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.

 

[Vluurz]

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.

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]

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

The geometry of this period of bike is absolutely bang on for an all purpose bike
Emmelle did use the current geometry - so although the components are low quality, if you overlook the weight, the handling will be nice

 

[joglo]

@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 looks a bit like a Scott or Clark Kent model, but is a cheap Taiwanese copy.
Maybe also from Lung I Machinery, 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

 

[Siish]

The forks are not that strong, ( speaking from experience, I snapped 2 pairs) think it was about 96 when I got mine from Littlewoods catalogue for 199 iirc, on another note thankyou for this, I've spent years trying to remember the exact model I had so thank you for this

 

[Vluurz]

@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 looks a bit like a Scott or Clark Kent model, but is a cheap Taiwanese copy.
Maybe also from Lung I Machinery, a slick stix, combination of right unicrown style fork crown but brake arch from the other models

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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

sorry for late repsonse! i lost access to my account and emails but all is well now and im just seeing this, to my knowledge i think the 2 black dots are safety stickers which was never taken off, but sure if im mistaken ill try have a look soon when i get it dug out lol. as for the forks, i think it says on it but from what i can remember it said something like "fx 24 or fs 24" thats even if it said 24 at all. one unique thing about this bike is that my neighbour got it new whenever it came out as he had some injury and was trying to become more active but never got the hang of it so it sat in an attic space until he gave it to me (or atleast its what i can remember from that day) so has very little use.

 

[legrandefromage]

You are missing something very important

It's got a 4 speed chainset!

Four!

MBUK did a review of a similar bike many moons ago, taking it around the same trails as any other test bike. It didn't do badly just not very good when compared to second hand of the day a few quid more spent elsewhere

 

[joglo]

ah, 24=4x6

Maybe they have used a mountain tamer Kit
https://abundantadventures.com/mt_plus.html

 

[markoc]

You are missing something very important

It's got a 4 speed chainset!

Four!

MBUK did a review of a similar bike many moons ago, taking it around the same trails as any other test bike. It didn't do badly just not very good when compared to second hand of the day a few quid more spent elsewhere

I remember that one!

A very different "4 on the floor"!