Italians bought more bicycles than cars in 2011 for the first time in decades, according to local media reports.
In 2011 some 1.75 million bicycles were sold, about 2,000 more than the number of new cars registered, La Repubblica newspaper reports.
It attributed the change to a slump in car sales during the economic crisis and the rising price of petrol, as well as bikes coming back into fashion
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