www.smallframes.com is the leading source for information on Smallframe Vespa scooters.

It covers all Vespa smallframe models from the 50 up to the 125 Primavera ET3, and also the subsequent PK range.

Smallframes.com is back!

After my hosting company shut down, and I bought a succession of big motorcycles, both my Smallframe and this website were neglected. An older version of this site has available at lineone.net, but I couldn't update that and the most recent version was lost. Now I have recovered that site, and have new hosting arranged, expect the info (and the HTML) on this site to be updated.

I started this site because back in 2000 or so there simply was no smallframe technical advice either on the web, or in printed form. I gathered what little info there was from the rest of the world, notably Japan and Germany, and from the now-moribund Vespa Smallframes Yahoo group and armed with a camera, some tools and a scooter, I documented every job that I did on my scooter so that others could benefit from my experience.

In the intervening years the smallframe world has moved on considerably. Italy has rekindled its love afair with the smallframe Vespa, and the Germans have been producing quality upgrades for suspension and electrical systems which I could only have dreamed of a decade ago. Some of them are going on my bike The smallframes.com ET3, for so long left unloved, is now undergoing a full restoration and upgrade at Project 13 scooters run by my friends Trevor and Ben. Watch this space for more updates...