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@Pepperoni
I'm from not far from there, prior to move to London I lived for a long while in Torino (Turin)...
most people in italy is riding single speed bikes like this:
or in the best case like this:
and in the last few years it happened also to see a wave of fixed gear riders...but way less HHS than here...
there's also to say that's so easy to find lovely track frame for cheap, really cheap till now. I found my frame in the cellar of a shop collecting dust with other 20-30 track frames...
now of course it's becoming fashionable and so prices are growing...but still not so much..
shame there are almost no velodromes...
and just fakengers as there are no courier companies that employ bike couriers..
but lately lot of alley cats with load of people taking part...