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Roman Time Warriors – Ahead of the pack

 

In a contemporary, crowded and congested metropolis all means of mobility vie for space and above all for time. Some people found a personal solution – the motorbike.

This flexible, easy to park, door-to-door vehicle adopts well to all terrains and any street widths. New cities, old towns and hill-top villages are all game. Short distances or long also fine. The result: they have conquered Italy. It has the highest level of motorbike ownership in all of Europe and, as it happens, one of the lowest GDPs. Like their ancestors’ two wheeled light chariot, the motorbike/scooter can beat any other moving object in the city – for time: always ahead of the pack. This victory has its costs: motorbikes share the highest ratio of fatalities.

 

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Uploaded on March 23, 2015
Taken on October 19, 2014