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They also turn up on hired MTBs in Sicily from my recent(ish) experience. I thought I'd pump up our tyres a bit before we set out in the morning and was a bit baffled by the valve system, but was rescued by one of the vineyard labourers (we were staying at a winemaking Agriturismo) who explained, as I struggled to keep up with his Italian*, that he'd been an aspiring pro rider in his teens and early twenties and had raced all over europe.
*I can understand a bit, speak almost none and Sicilian is a whole other world.