Marley Blonsky’s bike gave her power. Growing up in her childhood Texas neighborhood, she quickly realized the ways she stood out from the other kids. “I was always, like, the youngest, the slowest, the fattest,” she recalls to TODAY. “But I was able to keep up with my friends on the bike. So it was, like, a freedom tool for me.”

After a “pretty awful” divorce in her mid-20s, Blonsky started biking to work and “then it kind of became my whole life.” The more she rode, the more she reconnected with the freedom the bike once afforded her. As an adult in a larger body, however, she realized she would feel better if only the biking industry made room for her.

Marley Blonsky riding her bike as child. All Bodies on Bikes

Blonsky had a bike that suited her and the passion to ride it, but the

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