{"id":66041,"date":"2025-09-18T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=66041"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:38:12","slug":"in-loving-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/in-loving-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"In Loving Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1120\" height=\"1145\" data-attachment-id=\"66045\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/in-loving-memory\/rickankrumbiking\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RickAnkrumBiking.jpg?fit=1120%2C1145\" data-orig-size=\"1120,1145\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RickAnkrumBiking\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RickAnkrumBiking.jpg?fit=440%2C450\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RickAnkrumBiking.jpg?fit=587%2C600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RickAnkrumBiking.jpg?resize=1120%2C1145&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66045\" style=\"width:761px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RickAnkrumBiking.jpg?w=1120 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RickAnkrumBiking.jpg?resize=440%2C450 440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RickAnkrumBiking.jpg?resize=587%2C600 587w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RickAnkrumBiking.jpg?resize=470%2C480 470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1120px) 100vw, 1120px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Today is the one year anniversary of the passing of Rick Ankrum, Founder of texbiker.net. He was tragically killed on 9\/18\/2024 when he was hit by a car while cycling in Houston, Texas. Today our family honors him, as we continue to deal with our grief and the shock of having lost him in such a devastating and sudden manner. Words cannot express how profoundly he is missed. Cycling was his passion, so in his memory we offer his favorite saying, \u201cLet\u2019s ride!\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Rick Ankrum (1947-2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the one year anniversary of the passing of Rick Ankrum, Founder of texbiker.net. He was tragically killed on 9\/18\/2024 when he was hit by a car while cycling in Houston, Texas. Today our family honors him, as we <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/18\/in-loving-memory\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-hbb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66041"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66050,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66041\/revisions\/66050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}