Jeff Kerby

Hi, this is Jeff Kerby again, and I just realized that I totally neglected to thank Chauncey Matthews for building the bike creating the custom frame that I rode in the Tour Divide, uh, as usual, I'd never ride anything else, but I would've been totally remissed if I didn't thank him, so, again, thank everybody who helped out-just wished the outcome could've been different. Thanks everybody, bye.

Uh, yea, hi, this is Jeff Kerby, I'm calling in from Butte. I was here yesterday. Trudged out for about 9 hours, another downpour again, the weather's just been horrible. Anyway, basically I'm sick, um, I'm going to be dropping out, um, you know, no sympathy, no excuses. Basically did everything I could to stay out there, um, I just want to thank Outdoorsman Bicycle- they've been great with helping me this morning with ah, arrangements to uh, go home. For everybody who had hoped for a different outcome, I really don't know what to say. Uh, that's pretty much it for me, uh, I endured this thing once before, I don't want to do that. If I can't race it, um, I want to go home. And that's pretty much where I'm at. For everybody who believed- thanks. That's it for me. Bye.

Hey, one other thing. I'd just like to advise any bikers out there that if you could avoid getting your bike wrenched at Great Divide in Helena, if you can hold off till, uh, Butte, I'd do it at Outdoorsman Cycles. Do that because they don't charge you a bullshit twenty dollar fee, and my shifting sucked before I went in there, and it sucks now, so Outdoorsman Cycle in Butte is definately a much better bet so I thought I'd throw that out there.

Yea, so this is Jeff Kerby, and I'm just calling in to say that I left Helena yesterday about noon, and immediately, head wind like crazy... uh..I don't even know how far I climbed- it was a miserable experience. At one point, I hung a left when I should've went right on this snowmobile trail, so I went down into these rocks and I knew, kinda sorta right away that it was wrong, but it took a long time to hike out. Well, I left the bike, because I wasn't sure I was wrong, and I hiked up and saw these two women. And I was like, can you help me? And they looked at me and they're like all, "Let me get somebody- and they said 'Josh!!!'" Well, Josh comes out of the brush, and he has this half mullet/half mohawk thing going on, and he has clown eyes painted on his face, tattooed, and he has this 3 inch salamander lizard thing on his index finger, and he's stroking it. Well, he comes up and asks me to admire it. And I'm like, admire it? Hell man, can you help me get to D1. He didn't know anything. All he did was stare at this damn lizard like Golem in Lord of the Rings or something. Ah, you know what? The alien thing wasn't even this scary, nothing was this frightening. I just wanted to go home at that point, you know...  I don't know, you figure in Montana, that's where he was probably straight from the meth lab... but Anyway, made it through and I'm currently with Steve McGuire and Rob in Butte. I'm just happy to be alive, and didn't get acosted by the circus animals. Anyway, I'll call from the next town. Bye.

Hi this is Jeff Kerby uhh this is my first call in, I just arrived in Helena, Montana last night. Canada was cold and it was wet and it was beautiful, but weather was absolutely miserable. Uhh spent the first night I think it was Elkton uhh whatever the town was 109 miles in umm under a bridge talking to a I guess a homeless drunk guy….it was an interesting conversation, ended up trying to fall asleep but I was afraid he was gonna knife me. Then uhh I think it was two nights after that, everything I had was wet..I was freezing in this tent uhh I was getting frost bite. First thing as soon as I got onto the bike I saw a bear, he raised up at me, I didn’t know what to do so I just went at him…he ran away so that was good. Umm simple pass and that mud wall were particularly awful. Im gonna get my bike worked on now and hopefully get outa town, but today’s gonna be kind of low mileage so anyway do the best I can so take care and bye!