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[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

No, but bikes are too fast

Lancaster’s Amish bishops don’t permit bicycles for much the same reason that cars are verboten. Too fast. Too worldly.

Or they were too expensive

Bicycles used to be an expensive means of transportation in the 1800s. For reference, when the bicycle was released in 1878, it cost $125, according to the International Bicycle Fund.

That would set the average person back around $3,355 in today's dollars, according to an inflation calculator.

And, for rural back roads, bicycles aren't incredibly useful; the roads weren't paved enough to ensure a steady ride.

Amish churches decided that they were impractical, so they weren't integrated into day-to-day practices, according to Steve Nolt, professor of History and Anabaptist studies at Elizabethtown College.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This stance varies amongst Amish parish communities. There are plenty of Amish in the Midwest that ride pedal bikes, but do not have motorized scooters.

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And, for rural back roads, bicycles aren't incredibly useful; the roads weren't paved enough to ensure a steady ride.

Things that may have been true in 1878 or whatever but havent been true for a long time as long as its not just the most basic city bike

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 4 points 6 days ago

The article explains why the stance has remained the same 😉

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When bicycles were first becoming a thing, there was a big moral panic about women using them to have a life outside the home.