Virgin and Beaver are not mutually exclusive since Utah has both.

Virginia also has Assawoman. Probably an old Indian word that had a different meaning.

That is wrong as I live here in Pa. among them. Their bike is their car they ride them year around no matter what the weather. Lot of the guys are riding the bents. Lots of them get 10,000 miles on their bikes in a year.

Zman

All the Amish here in my rural Pa. area use these and they do about 5 sequences on each foot and then switch off. Some call them scooters and us English call them push bikes. I actually saw one of these ridden by a Danish or foreign guy on one of the Colorado tours. He rode it the entire tour and they actually race them overseas somewhere just like our crit races here. BTW The Amish and Mennonite ride different colored buggies one is black and one is grey. I think the Amish are the black ones.

Zman

Maybe that's how Floyd Landis got his start, being a Mennonite from Lancaster County.

...probably not still a member of his local congregation after going pro, being stripped of a TdF title for doping, being convicted of hacking into the computers of an anti-doping lab, reaching a plea deal to avoid prosecution for fraud, and later opening a cannabis business in Colorado.

I was in Lancaster last summer. Saw a lot of Amish riding the scooters pictured above. The Mennonites are less strict than the Amish, at least in Lancaster. So they can ride bikes.

It's called taking the lane. Sometimes you are required to do it if no rideable shoulder exists.

Georgia has Climax and Cumming, as well as Experiment, Needmore, and Boneville.

...and to correct the map, it's not merely a single town dedicated to Butts, it's an entire county!

Nice, expressive colors they're wearing. They seem to be enjoying themselves. It's great to see people even older than me enjoying an afternoon on two wheels.

Even when no shoulder is present, it is still adviseable to ride single file, to the right. The reason that riding in a side-by-side fashion is acceptable in the photo scene is because there is little-or-no traffic. Also, people in Lancaster County are chilled out and used to seeing slow traffic.

I want to know if their tire pressure is up-to-snuff. There is no reason to pedal any harder than you have to.

Was going to point that out as well. I've patronized Merv's (nominally in Shippensburg, PA) many times. Merv is a Menonite LBS owner (I highly recommend his shop if you are in the area), and I wouldn't be surprised if he sold more recumbents than anyone else in the state. I've seen many sorts of bicycles being ridden by his Mennonite patrons, including ones with indexed shifting.

Ah, the whole Renaissance bit, really!

Is Big Bone a town? I thought it was just Big Bone Lick State Park....


Also, Where you from?

Definitely just a state park. I am turning 49 in two weeks and I still giggle every time I go past the Big Bone Lick interstate exit signs.

I grew up in Louisville and now live in Berea, KY.

I only live about 12 miles or so awy from that shop. It isn't as well as it use to be as Merv doesn't work in it much any more but has a younger relative running it along with 2 younger workers. That being said I went to another LBS and he said Merv is a really good wheel builder and has him build wheels for the clients in his shop. That is saying something so I probably will get him to build a set for my gravel grinder over the winter.

Zman

It would be under her track uniform.

Nowhere near PA, but our area has a large Mennonite population. My primary route goes through some of their farms and homes. I see the tractors and other farm equipment out on the roads, the men and ladies always are friendly towards me. Their children love their bicycles, and skates are popular too. Many of the teenage girls ride horses, they always have on the distinctive pastel or floral print dresses and white bonnets while doing this or anything else.

One of the large farms had its hay storage barn burn a year ago, it was about a week later that I came on the place while riding and most of the congregation were having a barn raising for the hay storage. One day and done was all it took. Very humble and hard working folks, and as nice as can be towards cyclist. Their baked goods are beyond delicious too.

Bill

We were in Shipshewanna last summer and saw women cycling from the town out to the farm, presumably. They were awesome on their three speeds, five speeds, and hybrids! High cadence, excellent foot position, good speed, constant speed up the hills, and riding in excellent straight lines.

Dress was the dresses, bonnets, helmets over bonnets, running shoes, and cycling gloves.

Y'all are making some assumptions when you say "Mennonites". When you see the bonnets, the bicycles and the farms, you're talking about conservative Mennonites. I'm married to a Mennonite, and believe me, she ain't like those ladies on the bicycles.

Conservative Mennonites are much more like Amish than other Mennonites are.

This is news to me.

It took me four days to hitch-hike out of one spot in Hershey, back in the late 70's. I thought that maybe they had calmed down since then. Maybe not.

Well living all around them you see many things. On the Amish side about anything goes before they are married as the older generation hopes that the younger generation will still stay Amish. So yes there are cars hidden places and then when they settle down and get married the cars are sold. The ones that have a business after they get married pay to have a driver drive them around. On the Mennonite side their tractors have steel wheels but their wagons and other equipment have tires go figure. It does tend to mess up the tar and chip roads in the summer time. The funniest thing that has happened to me over the years is I ride late at night at times since I do ultra rides and struggle riding at night. One time I made it home around midnight and this guy pulls up beside me in a Ford Bronco and asks me if I have seen a horse. Didn't know what was going on at the time but figured out later that he was out partying somewhere and his horse got away and he didn't know what to say when he went home without his horse.

Zman

Hmmm, looks like 4-abreast riding in an area where no crossing the center line is permitted while passing. Do they blow through STOP signs too?