{"id":539630,"date":"2026-04-19T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539630\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:01:08","slug":"man-takes-on-100km-birmingham-bike-ride-in-wifes-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539630\/","title":{"rendered":"Man takes on 100km Birmingham bike ride in wife&#8217;s memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paying tribute to her, Beesley said: &#8220;Steph was beautiful and very glamorous. She loved travelling and loved her music \u2013 she really enjoyed going to gigs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She had lots of friends and would always make time for them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beesley said he took up cycling after her death and had been looking for a longer bike ride to take part in before signing up for Ride the Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will be tackling the event with his late wife&#8217;s best friend&#8217;s dad, Beesley said, who was also a keen cyclist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had planned to raise \u00a31,000 for Birmingham Hospice but had already exceeded that, with the total on his Just Giving page now at more than \u00a32,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It just shows how much Steph meant to so many people,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birmingham Hospice&#8217;s Ride the Reservoir event takes place every year with cyclists able to take on 75km (46-mile), 100km (62-mile) or 100-mile (160km) rides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The challenge, which is marking its 11th year, takes participants on a route around the city&#8217;s reservoirs and parts of the surrounding countryside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paying tribute to her, Beesley said: &#8220;Steph was beautiful and very glamorous. She loved travelling and loved her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}