Vespa scooter shop Smallframe Catalog covers from 1987 and 1989
Scooter shop cover Vespa
If you've been driving a scooter for a while, you may still know the scooter shop!
Scooter youth icons
The scooter shop was the scooter shop for us young scooter drivers in the 80s and early 90s. Whether Scooterboy, Popper or Mod: With its catalogs, the scooter shop pulled our pocket money and our first salary out of our pockets. But some of us knew how to defend ourselves: Philipp, for example, always ordered the PK disc brake for 540 DM with every order, so he was always above the postage exemption limit and he was sure of free delivery, but the disc brake was never available until the end .
For many, the catalog was like a Bible. A bright red shone on the cover of the 1989 catalog Smallframe Vespa with water cooling with Zirri engine. The connoisseur may have recognized straight away that the model is a Primavera, but did you know which parts were built in in detail? What performance did they have or what the Vespa looks like from the front?
And did you know that there was a cover Vespa in black as early as 1987? In general, have you ever wondered what of these forgotten ones Dream scooters of our youth has become? The scooter shop as a company did not manage to survive, we took over customer support in 2007 and bought the domain. Vehicles and stocks were spread over the whole republic. Did the cover rollers survive?
Christian and Ronny from the Scoot Devils Seevetal have not forgotten, have found the legendary scooters and carefully restored them!
In the Scooter Center The two scooters could be admired for the first time on OpenDay. So of course I used the opportunity and Christian and Ronny got the unbelieveable story let tell. Check out the video now! You can find out below Details about the vehicles and receive more Insights and detailed pictures.
Many thanks to Christian, who was not only available to us for the video, but also sent this information about the two scooters afterwards:
Both are the original frames and motors that were built by Bruno Zirri!
Roller shop red:
Loom: Vespa Primavera ET3
Engine: Vespa Primavera ET3
- Tau TVR 30 H2o cylinder 127ccm about 25PS
- Zirri full-flanged crankshaft with Tau TVR connecting rod stroke 50,6 mm
- 2/64 primary
- Original 4-speed gearbox
- 4 disc clutch
- Exhaust cable TVR welded around
- Tau TVR cooler
- Water pump / service water caravan
- Carburetor / Dellorto PHBE 36 sz magnesium with power jet
- Ignition / Motoplat 6v electronic
- PK XL clutch cover
- Welding and spindle work on the engine block (back then)
- Chassis / Bitubo rear the hose version / front original
The frame was reinforced by us, as it has already become soft over the years due to the many falls.
Sanding and filling work.
Working hours approx. 250
Energy cans approx. 400
Roller shop black:
Loom: Vespa 50 n special
Engine: Vespa 50 Special
- Eurocilindro Parabellum H2o 133ccm converted to membrane about 18 HP
- Mazzuchelli racing crankshaft stroke 51mm
- 2/64 primary
- Original 4-speed gearbox
- 4 disc clutch
- Eurocilindro exhaust
- IPRA cooler
- Ignition PK 12 V turned off
- Original clutch cover
- Carburetor / Dellorto 34 PHBE magnesium
- Chassis / Bitubo at the rear with expansion tank / original at the front
- Welding and spindle work on the engine block (back then)
A few holes were welded shut on the frame itself and the original ones for the cooling water hoses were opened again.
Sanding and filling work
Working hours approx. 120
Energy cans approx. 170
Thank you!
Big thanks to the following people who supported us:
- Luis and Klaus from the Scoot-Devils for sanding, filling and cleaning work
- Manuel our painter
- Angelo / Stefano Zirri for the original photos and information
- Arne Uhlhorn Rollershop Original Sticker (For the red one)
- Dennis Neumann who made the sacrifice to part with the red roller shop frame.
- Kingwelle company (Christoph) for pressing over the crankshaft of the Red Rollershop
- Company O-ring.de who had or measured all seals for the TAU TVR cylinder
- Company artwork for the stickers and their production
- Thanks to everyone and their many tips from the scenes for these vehicles
- And a big thank you to everyone who had to endure us and our madness during the restoration ...
be it partners, friends, etc.
What are the next steps?
Do the “partners who had to endure madness” know that there is already a new project? Again the guys go to work for a while Smallframe to revive the German scooter scene:
Scauri tuning
Preview: This is the former vehicle of our friend Mathias Scherer, who beat the red Vespa with a water-cooled Scauri engine on international racetracks and even then scratched the 30 HP mark. Scauri Racing, have you heard this before? Stefano Scauri co-founded BSG Corse, BSG is now BFA and Stefano Scauri now develops cylinders for Parmakit. We keep you here in the Scooter Center Blog up to date.
