57. Heck, the Beachy Amish are allowed to have cars. Not all
Amish are OLD-ORDER AMISH.
There are also some Mennonite groups that are WAY stricter than most and live basically like the Old-Order Amish. I think they are called Old-Order Mennonites.
Some Amish (but not many) are permitted bicycles.
Every little Amish church district has its own ordnung, or set of unwritten rules about everything from color of buggy tops to curtains in windows to the width of the brim on the men's hats and of course use of electricity or not, community phone or not, and use of tractors (and rubber vs steel tires). It's fascinating.
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