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E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish - This E-Bike Life

thisebikelife.com E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish - This E-Bike Life

In some Amish communities these days, e-bikes are beginning to outnumber buggies on the roads. Horse-drawn buggies, long a symbol of the Amish lifestyle, are finding less use as more people in Amish communities adopt electric-powered bicycles. In small Amish towns across America such as Sugarcreek, ...

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There are different types of amish people and they have different attitudes towards modern technology. I remember watching some video where they were building a barn and using battery powered tools but using a gasoline generator to charge the batteries because grid electricity is forbidden.
- Bizarre, I wonder how they came up with those rules
Sacrilegious.
- It's a little more complicated than you might think from what I understand, it's not necessarily against their rules.
- I have the same thought for a brief moment, but then I realized that not only do I not have authority to police their decision, but I also don't care anyways.