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Exploring 500+ years of history along 500+ miles of Bicycle Route 76 in Virginia.

Podcast episodes and more: https://linktr.ee/bike76VA

Project Director: Tom Ewing, Professor of History, Virginia Tech
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Bike 76 VA @bike76va.bsky.social · Jan 24
Need something to listen to while you bike? Learn about the complex history of Virginia through the Virginia Bikecentennial Route 76 Podcast (available on our website and Spotify).
A photo of a road sign for bicycle route 76 with an arrow pointing left. It is on the side of the road in front of pine trees and a wooden slate fence.
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Join us today either in person or via livestream for the Humanities Week event, "Exploring the Power of Place along U.S. Bicycle Route 76 in Virginia." @bike76va.bsky.social

📅 Thursday, October 30
🕧 12:30 p.m.
📍 Newman Library 124 (and livestreamed here: youtube.com/live/FguvLcp...)
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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NEW BLOG POST: "Pedaling through Virginia’s Past and Future on US Bike Route 76; How Bicycling Tourism Benefits Virginia" www.vabike.org/2025/10/26/p...
Pedaling through Virginia’s Past and Future on US Bike Route 76; How Bicycling Tourism Benefits Virginia
Map showing U.S. Bicycle Routes 1, 76, and 176 in Virginia As Virginia approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, communities across the Commonwealth are reflecting on the landscapes, stories, and ex...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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US Bike Route 76, the 1976 Bikecentenial, and Pulaski County, VA: pcpatriot.com/the-1976-bik...
The 1976 Bikecentenial and Pulaski County - Patriot Publishing LLC
By TOM EWING
pcpatriot.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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hey, I've now found through email correspondence that this #virginia #bikecentennial public history project exists. Is there anything else like this in any other states? 🗃️

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PEDAL: Call for Proposals – Bikecentennial Route 76 in Virginia
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October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Song of Open Road 50th anniversary #brucespringsteen #borntorun
Jim Mowry about #bicycle ride across US: You get on a high. Your senses become sharpened and attuned. You reach out and grab the scenery and savor the flavor of the country you're passing through
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August 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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New Bike 76 VA blog essay explores connections between Bruce Springsteen album Born to Run, released 50 years ago, and bicycling in 1970s, including desire for open road and impact of economic dislocation
#bikesky
Image: #bicycle on album cover Hungry Heart
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August 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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New Bike 76 VA essay, "Wear a Helmet: Be Cool" examines helmet wearing by bicycling children since the 1970s #bikesky #bicycle @bikeleague.org @vtliberalarts.bsky.social @virginiatech.bsky.social

Circulating Now, National Library of Medicine
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August 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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New #Bicycle Repair Station in Palmyra Virginia serves cyclists along Transamerican Route 76 as well as regional riders and local community. Learn more about bicycle repair station, efforts of community organizations, and US / VA history from essay: bike76-va.vt.domains/home/blog-po...
#bikesky
August 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Photographs: Arthur Ashe and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe on bicycles and statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue near US #Bicycle Route 1 #bikesky #tennis #usopen

Learn more about connections between Ashe, bicycling, and history from Bike 76 VA blog essay: bike76-va.vt.domains/home/blog-po...
August 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Fifty years ago, Arthur Ashe won #tennis championship Wimbledon. Two years later, he rode #bicycle & carried racket to news conference in New York City

Read more about Arthur Ashe & American history along Virginia's Route 76 from new essay:
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Photo: NYT 11/22/77
August 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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For national #lighthouse day, enjoy postcard showing bicycle races in early 1900s at Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven CT

Postcard shows #bicycle racers on board track, with crowds watching from outside the track

Read more from New Haven Register, 9/14/2012
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August 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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New blog post from Virginia Tech Bike 76 VA project explores freedom in 1775 and the tension between liberty & enslavement
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Blog: bike76-va.vt.domains/home/blog-po...
Podcast episode: bike76-va.vt.domains/home/podcast...
August 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Read about bicycling and health in 1890s in Circulating Now essay from National Library of Medicine
"The #Bicycle in Relation to the Physician"
by E Thomas Ewing & Grace Kostrzebski
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August 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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On International #Owl Awareness day, follow recommendation of this "wise old owl" to ride a 10 speed #bicycle
#bikesky

Learn more about cycling and 1970s from Bike 76 Va project: bike76-va.vt.domains/home/

Ad from Santa Cruz Sentinel 8/22/1974
August 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Owl Drug in Los Angeles CA offers special #owl #bicycle delivery services for those in a hurry

International #owl awareness day

Los Angeles Times 3/22/1903
August 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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100 years ago, Compton's #Bicycle Shop in Americus GA: "
Ride a Bicycle! Enjoy Good Health! There is no better health builder for weak, run-down children, also grown people than riding a bicycle"
#bikesky

Americus Times-Recorder 8/12/1925
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August 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Linda Stein won US women's #bicycle road racing championship in 1976, the year of Bikecentennial. Four years earlier, @latimes.com profiled Linda Stein and Cindy Johnson in article: "2 Pedal Pushers Crash Male Sport" (9/13/72)
#tdff #bikesky
Read about cycling in 1970s: bike76-va.vt.domains/home/
July 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Tillie Anderson captured the attention of the sporting world in the 1890s by her remarkable success in bicycle races. More than a century of women’s #bicycle racing prepared the way for popularity of Tour de France Femmes #tdff
#bikesky
Read essay:
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July 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Bikecentennial Route 76 now part of training rides for women's #bicycle Virginia's Blue Ridge Team Twenty28
@visitvbr.bsky.social #tdff #bikesky
Ride info
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Team info
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July 29, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Bicycle decorating contest in Allentown Pennsylvania ca May 1972
#bikesky

Read more about #bicycle parades in #gildedage America from Bike 76 VA essay: bike76-va.vt.domains/home/blog-po...

Photograph: Morning Call May 8, 1972
July 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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In Bikecentennial year 1976, Connie Carpenter-Phinney won US cycling championship, repeated in 1977 & 1979, & won first Olympic gold medal 1984:
In 1977, she declared: "“More women should get into bicycle racing”
#tdff #bikesky #bicycle
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July 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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90 years ago, US cyclist Miss Iona J. Allen trained to compete at 1936 #olympics (unfortunately, women not allowed to compete in Olympic #bicycle until 1984)
#tdff #tdf #tdf2025 #bikesky

Girl Cashier Seeks Bicycle Fame
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July 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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100 years ago, US newspapers reported on #tourdefrance winner Italian Ottavio Bottecchiia
Also 1925, US newspapers reported on beating of John Barker whose daughter Jewell rode #bicycle for health wearing knickers #tdf #tdf2025 #bikesky #tdff
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July 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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50 years ago, #chuckmangione concert in Buffalo NY includes songs from debut album Chase the Clouds Away
Ad from Buffalo News 7/26/1975
Also 50 years ago, photo of children taking part #bicycle rodeo in Kingston, Ontario published on front page of Whig-Standard newspaper 7/24/1975
#bikesky
July 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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New Bike 76 VA essay by Virginia Tech student Grace Kostrzebski on Dr Pepper & Transamerica #bicycle Route 76 explores vim, vigor, & vitality in 20th C America
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#bikesky #depepper
A lion with a dr pepper bottle
July 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM