Tama had just flown into town and he regaled me with tales of his new life in New York and his latest drinking-and-jumping accident—a broken collarbone sustained a couple of months ago on his thirtieth birthday and ‘pretty much healed’ except for a prominent alien-head lump of extra bone near his neck, which threatened to burst through his T-shirt. ‘The doctor said not to do any heavy lifting for three months, and no cycling for, like, six months,’ Tama said, knocking back his whisky and pouring another. ‘I told him I was going to mountain-bike across Mongolia, and he said it was the worst idea he’d ever heard—but I reckon I’ll be sweet.’ | |
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