Feanor

Well, in the whole Norway live half the population than the city where I live plus the suburbs.
Norway: 4.7 million
Milan metro area: 7.4 million

I got the scooter years ago to go to work, since I was spending 3 hours a day on the subway and buses to travel less than 20km. The weather in winter here is not as cold as Norway of course but it isn't that warm either. You get a lot of rain and cold.

About roads, you can't go offroad with any scooter. Maybe weels don't break but you fall or break something else. I don't know why in Thailand they use those thiny weels, maybe they are cheaper. I am impressed by the whole thing, it looks like somebody assembled it with pieces from a trash dump.

On a side note, a scooter like the last above here costs about 4.5K euros.

Hey, wait, they sell exaclty the same scooter in Norway too, see here:
http://www.yamaha-motor.no/produkter/motorsykler/scooters/x-city_250.jsp
It looks like vikings do ride scooters after all

You mean an ugly future.
Add two weels to a coffin.

ØØ, there is a thing then, riding the scooter is much more fun than driving a car.

On a side note, here it is like Norway about the age limit.
But the above scooter is 250cc and needs you to pass the exam for a motorbike license, which requires 18 or above. There are bigger scooters of 400cc or even 500cc.

Class10a1, I understand why Italy exports design stuff. It looks people from many other places do have really bad tastes

I ride the scooter all year long, the only thing that stops me is the snow, I've tried it a couple of times (snowed while I was already arrived at work) but it is a suicidal move. Of course it is not fun to ride a bike under the rain but it can be done if you don't need to go too far and you have got a good complete rain suit (smart move to bring a change of clothes just in case). Here where I live the average temperature in winter goes from slightly under 0°C to about 10°C but it doesn't rain that much, the rain seasons are spring and autumn. People go riding bikes even in winter when it is a sunny day, the classical trip is somewhere around the lakes. It becomes warmer around the end of april and the full season for bikes is from may to the end of september.

I guess the flag is an homage to your country, you shouldn't get offended. From here those places are almost mythical, you know, the mysterious very deep iced north. I bet the idea was to give the impression of original stuff bought over there by adventurous travellers. Adventurous clothes for adventurous people. Anyway, I would complain if the flag was used in some bad way (like the bottom of my shorts) instead of the front of good looking winter clothes.

About the flag, I've said before the original local flag here is the red cross on white field, the same as England and similar to yours.
The present italian flag was taken from the french post-revolution flag and the napoleonic armies (which at some point had embedded some italian divisions) when later the north of Italy was rebelling against the austrian occupation and later adopted as national flag (with the king arms in the middle of it, removed after WWII).
The french flag inspired the american flag colors (France also supported the americans against England - see the movie "Patriot" with Mel Gibson) and several european flags as symbol of revolution against foreign occupation or the ancient kingdoms.