The Kent Coast Cycling Lesson

  • INTRODUCTION

    The Kent Coast Cycling Lesson By Tony Sears Being about a relationship failing and neither partner having the means to move out. One of us (me) hatched a plan to escape at weekends, with the help of an old bike and a train ticket to Kent. There, I progressed along endless promenades and across margins…

  • PROLOGUE

    The Kent Coast Cycling Lesson ‘That’s it, we’re finished. We’re really finished.’ There, I’d said it. Solid dread softened into a wobble-legged vertigo as I jumped out of my imaginary aeroplane. So many times had I visualised this moment, anger and frustration adding in layers as I built the courage to face the onslaught that…

  • The Kent Coast Cycling Lesson – CHAPTER 1

    GRAVESEND TO ROCHESTER – SATURDAY 14 MARCH 1998 “I don’t know why, but I had to start it somewhere. So it started… there.” Pulp The singing bicycle Two months after That’s It We’re Finished, the tunes in my head started to return. A fragment of Pulp had just popped into it as I clumsily hauled…