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I evangelise #earlydetection and encourage people to #getchecked, because frankly without the early accidental discoveries I had of Marvin, Wilson and McGregor (the nicknames I gave to my three tumours), I simply would not be here.
It's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets Long Way Round meets "I've got what, doc?"
A cancer memoir with a twist ... of the throttle.
When Dr Alex Menzies pointed at a glowing blur on a scan and said, "We found something," Stuart Lloyd's world stopped. Again.
Stage 4 stomach cancer. Then Stage 4 melanoma. A business built on 200 nights a year on the road wiped out overnight. Their dream house, gone next. Borders slammed shut by Covid — his partner stuck on the other side for 631 days. His mother slipping into dementia right in front of him.
But somewhere between the scans, the surgeries, the solitude, and the slow-motion unravelling of everything familiar, Lloyd discovered something: motorcycling was keeping him sane. More than that — it was making him want to stay alive.
From the regional back-blocks of Australia to the mountain passes of Nepal, Japan and Switzerland, the back lanes of Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam — the road trips are real. The scarier journey is the one inside his head.
Motorcycling Cures Cancer* is about what happens when life throws everything at you: divorce, financial crises, medical dramas — and finding, somewhere in the rev of an engine and the blur of the open road, a reason to keep going. It's a ten-year run of surgery and treatment that Lloyd calls "some of the best and most contented years of my life.”
Funny, raw, and disarmingly honest, this is the story of a man who used motorcycling as meditation and medication — with cancer riding shotgun the whole way.
Includes 12 pages of photos illustrating Stu’s amazing journey.
Plus 20 funny and insightful Rules of the Road.
Rule of the Road #5 "Never buy a new bike and have a vasectomy in the same week!"
Some Kind Words about Motorcycling Cures Cancer*
“Stu Lloyd beat odds of one-in-sixty billion, climbed on a motorbike and rode through ten countries to tell you about it. This is a big-hearted, full-throttle story about living rather than just surviving, and about the science and the people who keep giving the rest of us more time.
Read it, count your blessings, then go and live a little louder.”
- Mark Beretta OAM
“Motorcycling Cures Cancer* is a great title. I felt simultaneously sadness, joy and gratitude. What an ordeal you lived through! Your story is very inspiring!”
Noura Kevorkian, Oscar-nominated documentary maker, Canada.
“I wish you all the very best with the book and your journeys ahead. Ride safe.”
Kinga Tanajewska, On Her Bike.
“Strap your helmet on, it's gonna get bumpy. Stu Lloyd drags you into his biker's life of risk-hungry adventure ... before he pulls the threads together into a tapestry of resilience, love, meaning, and an improbable (barely-sealed) road to contentment.”
Dr Dominic Frawley AM, author of Malachy.
“I enjoyed the adventure … can’t wait to see the movie!
Massive kudos, you’ve managed it all with amazing grace and gusto!”
Dr Chris Shambrook, PlanetK2, and 5 x Team GB
Olympic Games psychologist.
“Honoured DGR gets a chapter.
Love the title! Stu, you’re a legend!”
Mark Hawwa, founder, Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride.
"At Tour de Cure, we ride to help cure cancer. Stu rides to remind us why.
A hilarious, heartfelt celebration of life, resilience and the sheer joy of being alive.”
Matt Clarke, former managing director, Tour de Cure.