One of the victims of Tuesday’s terror attack in Manhattan is a 32-year-old New Jersey man who was biking between meetings in an effort to lose weight, his devastated parents told The Post.

Darren Drake, a project manager at Moody’s, had bought a CitiBike membership in an effort to get fit, said his mom at their New Milford home.

“He was riding his bike in between meetings — I guess he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Barbra Drake, 69, said after returning from the coroner’s office.

“He was trying to lose weight, trying to stay active. So he signed up for that CitiBike group … he was trying to do everything right. Trying to take care of himself.”

Darren had undergone bariatric surgery and lost 93 pounds, added his dad, Jimmy. He rode his bike in place of a cigarette or coffee break.

A brainiac about to start his second master’s degree, Darren was wearing his earphones and listening to an audio book when he was hit, his parents said.

“I hope he was traveling south and he never saw what was coming. He had bruises on his face from where he hit the pavement,” Barbra said.

He was just finishing listening to “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.”

“This kid was so smart, if you compared his brain and mine, it’s like Homer and Lisa Simpson,” said a bawling Jimmy, 73.

In addition to earning a political science degree from Rutgers University, the former high school footballer had also previously worked as president of the local board of education.

“We shouldn’t try to give our children an equal playing field. I want to give them the best so that they can be the best and achieve the most,” he told Patch in 2013.

Barbra and Jimmy heard about the terror attack while listening to the radio in their car Tuesday afternoon. But the didn’t start worrying until several hours later when Darren hadn’t shown up at home and they couldn’t reach him by phone.

“This feels like 9/11 for us,” Jimmy said.

“If there was one guy the terrorists shouldn’t have killed, it was my son. He wouldn’t swat a fly — he would make me do it … This is a really good kid. This kid, when he went to Mass, we didn’t have to drag him — he went on his own.”