What happened?
Tyler fought a mountain and the mountain won.
On January 25th, while on a group ride, Tyler wrecked at the base of a descent. He was brought by ambulance to Highland Hospital's trauma unit with a shattered T3 and fractured T4 vertebrae, a broken rib, broken fingers, and no feeling in his legs.
I met him here to make sure he saw me when he got out of the ambulance and he said he was happy to be here. Then they prepped him for an MRI and hustled him to surgery. The surgeons installed a thoracic “cage” — basically, titanium hardware from his T1-T5 over 5 hours without incident. They then moved him to the ICU.
His first joke? That he's excited about his new career as a sit-down comedian 🙃