Rosemary Sorce is a 92 year-old woman from Boise, Idaho who has always loved going on bike rides. When her old age made it impossible for her to continue riding a conventional bike, her family stepped in to make her what they call a “blessing bike” to allow her to continue doing what she loves!

The blessing bike is just a cargo style bicycle retrofitted to carry Rosemary around. It was Rosemary’s daughter Jill Houser who came up with the idea after seeing a video on social media.

“I was on Facebook and saw a video from Copenhagen. A volunteer built a bike and was taking seniors all over the place, and I was watching the looks on those people’s faces and then looked at my mom on the couch, who I would take out in a wheelchair and then said to Wade (her husband), is there any way you can make something like this?” Jill explained. “And he said like he always does… I think I could make that!”

Jill found an old rusted cargo bike on Craigslist and modified and repainted it with the help of her family. They gave the bike to Rosemary for her birthday, and she fell in love with it instantly!

“I’m 92 and hell I want to keep going, oops I shouldn’t have said that, I want to keep going,” Rosemary explained. “Look at the sky. You know you don’t see all this in the car.”

While Jill figured that Rosemary would love the bike, she did not expect strangers to have such a big reaction to it.

“We had a man stop us on the street, and he pulled over in a parking lot and physically stopped us on the road and just started crying and said ‘I wish I had this experience for my mom, how do you build a bike like this? What do you do?'” Jill said. “So I think this isn’t just about us, it’s about what we can do we can all do for our elderly family members in helping them experience this season in their life at the very end as much as possible.”

This is why they decided to call it a blessing bike!

“This is lovely. I like the freedom to be able to go outside!” Rosemary said. “It makes you feel good and you feel loved! You’re not just sitting around. It’s heavenly and that must be what heaven is like, just to know that you are loved.”

Find out more about this in the video below!