Malaysian CEO quits job and opens bicycle shop/cafe to battle depression

Yu underwent a short course on bicycle repairs at a Shah Alam-based bicycle factory before kickstarting his business. Photos: Anderson Yu

Cycling has helped businessman Anderson Joseph Yu Weng Keong get in shape. But it has also helped him get his life back on track.

Apart from being instrumental in him shedding 15kg in the past two years, cycling has helped Yu battle against loneliness, depression and borderline alcoholism, triggered by the first movement control order in 2020.