Riding bikes in the streets is stricly forbidden by laws in italy too and people risk a lot doing this, in porticular for they wallets...
Btw there are a lot of people that ride bikes in non-tracks areas, like discount parkings and going on, but some of them have the permission to do it, in italy we have some nice tracks, but they aren't enought imho, and so group of people ask to their own cities majors to permit them to ride in particular area, parking or going on.
In italy the chinese phenomena permit to increase the interests around a sport that was dead some years ago.
The first people who said this where the big italian minibike manufacter, they have always known that lots of people bored by the problems provided by chinese bikes, in a near future will be interested in better bikes so in them
And the trend is this, lots of people that started with a air cooled chinese, that bored by the low performance decided to buy a better bike, some of them decided for a chinese water cooled, others for an italian water cooled one.
But sooner or later an italian minibike is a must
About the UISP championship i've to say that it is not related with the FMI one that follows the FIM Minibike Europen Championship terms, so the winners of UISP will not race against FMI ones in a final
