Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes for Death podcast.

As always, my name is Patrick and I'm your host.

And on today's episode, I'm talking with Jay Peterbury, who is a member of our community

that likely needs no introduction.

Jay first rode the Tour Divide in 2007, and he has been making waves in the bikepacking world ever

since his latest project was to ride the entire Great Divide mountain bike route that as of

2018 now starts in Jasper Canada which adds about 500 miles onto the route that we currently know is the Tor Divide that starts in Banff.

And there's a little bit of history behind the Tor Divide, the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, and it all ties into Jay's purpose and reasoning for wanting to do this ride.

He titled it unearthed and it was a project

that he worked on for many years. He had a cool bike built and unique bike. He had fundraising

efforts surrounding it and he put a lot of time and attention into setting the fastest known

time on the Great Divide mountain bike route,

the whole thing, which now is 3,080 miles.

Unfortunately, about 2,000 miles into his ride, Jay was struck from behind by a motorist

in broad daylight on a clearly visible road. He was struck from behind by a motorist in broad daylight on a clearly visible road.

He was struck from behind at about 2,000 miles into his ride halfway through Colorado,

thus ending his ride and beginning his road to recovery.

So in today's episode, we are catching up with Jay. We are hearing from him

about the tragic event that happened to him, about his injuries, about his recovery, and of course,

about him coming back to revisit unearthed sometime in the future. I wish there was some kind

of happy bow to tie on to this

episode, but the reality is, is that as cyclists, we are vulnerable and we are in a world that

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