JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Family and friends of a Jacksonville man killed in a motorcycle crash in the Allendale area are honoring his life.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, they held a memorial ride for Keith Gates in downtown Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
Dozens of motorcycles lined up under the Acosta Bridge for a heartfelt tribute to Gates.<\/p>\n
For many, the ride was about healing through the same passion that brought them together.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe taught me a lot,\u201d Gates\u2019 friend Hailey Humphrey said. \u201cThere was a lot that I didn\u2019t know about bikes that I learned from him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Lykins said he only knew gates less than a year but the two grew close, very quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat man was an angel,\u201d Lykins said.<\/p>\n
He even bought a bike that he and Gates were supposed to build together.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n But now he is left with an unfinished bike and memories.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been hard every time,\u201d Lykins said. \u201cI touch it, I just break down because he is not here to help me.\u201d<\/p>\n Gates\u2019 death is the 40th one involving a motorcycle this year in Duval County.<\/p>\n A number that Lykins said he does not want to see grow anymore.<\/p>\n \u201cI would like the rest of this year to finish out and a good beginning of next year to finish with hopefully low accidents,\u201d Lykins said.<\/p>\n He said the best way to honor Gates is to keep others safe on the road.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need the cars and us bikers as well to please pay more attention,\u201d Lykins said. \u201cTake that extra 5 seconds to look left and look right. It will save a lot of lives.\u201d<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Family and friends of a Jacksonville man killed in a motorcycle crash in the Allendale…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":400398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[7320,5229,7323,3188,723,7324,7310,7327,7325,7326,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7322,7321],"class_list":{"0":"post-400397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action-news-jax","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cbs47","11":"tag-fl","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-fox30","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-jacksonville-fl","16":"tag-northeast-florida","17":"tag-southeast-georgia","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-wfox","25":"tag-wjax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115602382106173943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}