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Fixing up an Emmelle Diamond 5 bike

DATE: 2018-10-25

AUTHOR: John L. Godlee

One of our friends found a beaten up Ladies racing bike at his work. It's an Emmelle Diamond 5, with 26 inch wheels and a step through frame. It had lost it's front wheel and front brake, everything was rusty, and the rubber on the remaining tyre had perished.

Original bike

We took the bike to a place in Edinburgh called The Bike Station, which has bike stands which you can hire by the house and lots of second hand bike parts for reasonably cheap. We got set up and did a number of things:

Bike on repair stand with new wheels

Now it looks really smart, thought I'm still slightly worried about the brakes, they seemed a bit mushy, probably the brake levers.

Refurbished bike

New brakes