Eight GoodGym-goers helped the Cycle Hub by clearing the courtyard of its new home in the Maidenhead Advertiser building this week. Our plans for painting at St Edmund Campion might have been put on hold due to the weather, but this was no excuse for a brake…

After meeting at All Saints Church, Amy, Juli, Michelle, Matt, Tessa, Nicola and new members Jeremy and Dean (welcome!) rolled into action with a group run down to Bell Street to get stuck in to the task. We worked to clear the courtyard area of weeds and brambles while chatting about the TV programmes keeping all of us in suspense-ion, including Strictly, Squid Game and You.

Afterwards we kicked things up a gear with a planking challenge, and then it was time to head back up the hill to our meeting point before everyone got too tyred. Plans to clock up a few extra kilometres after the mission were scuppered by the wet weather, but we all had a wheelie good time anyway.

Welcome also to Rach who joined us for a doc check too - hope to see you at a mission soon!

Well done to Tessa, who joined me for round two helping Maidenhead Cycle Hub workshop shift the contents of their workshop into their new premises on (bicycle) Bell Street.

Tessa got there before me and did a wheely great job sorting a big pile of tyres into different sizes, ready for tidy storage in their new home. Shortly after I arrived a truck pulled up and needed unloading, so along with volunteers and engineers from Cycle Hub, we carried in boxes of tools, bike parts and various pieces of shelving and racking. With the music (tyre) pumping and lots of us working together we really shifted gear!

While we waited for the next truck Tessa and I were asked to sort out boxes of inner tubes by size and line them up on the shelf. This definitely got the cogs turning, but we eventually got a handle(bar) on it. After that it was time for Tessa to make (bike) tracks, whilst I stayed to help unload one more truck-ful.

Thanks to the Cycle Hub team for making us feel so welcome. We wish you every success pedalling your wares from your new home! We also can't wait to come back and weed that courtyard...

A huge well done to Tessa and Michelle, who escaped during their lunch breaks today and joined me in helping the Cycle Hub move premises. Michelle ran from her desk, Tessa walked, and I cycled, so we had every aspect of GoodGym's 'Run, Walk, Cycle' mantra covered.

Active travel is also at the heart of what Cycle Hub do. Their goal is to promote the benefits of cycling and to get more people out on their bikes. You can read more about their brilliant work by clicking here. One of their many activities is to take in donations of unwanted bikes, refurbish them and sell them on. Their current stock of donated bikes is around 900, so moving premises means shifting a LOT of bikes!

They hired a flat-bed truck to ferry bikes from the old work-shop to the new, and estimated that the truck would need to do 10 trips to shift all of the bikes. I had in mind for the title of this report to be 'push it wheel good', but with lots of flat tyres and a spiral staircase thrown into the mix, the task involved less pushing and much more lifting and climbing. Think less pedal in the park and more Alpe d'Huez!

I arrived after Tessa and Michelle had helped Sarah, Mark, Toby and Shyam from Cycle Hub to unload the first truck-full and haul them up the stairs. The team were all smiling, but it was clear they had been working hard. While we waited for the next load to arrive, we had the fun task of helping to assemble the bike racks, which were made out of scaffolding poles and had arrived with the first load of bikes.

One of the challenges of bulky bikes, many hands and a spiral staircase is finding room to pass on the stairs, so for the second and third loads we made a human chain...it was a bicycle chain, but not as you know it! It was an effective system and still a great workout for biceps and quads. Michelle had to get back to work after load two and Tessa had to dash after load three. Having missed the first load, I stuck around for load four, before I had to hop on my own bike and head for home.

By the end I felt wheely tyred, but it was super satisfying seeing hundreds of bikes racked up in their new work-shop and knowing that we had helped with a big chunk of the move. Huge kudos to the Cycle Hub team, who continued working hard after we had gone.

Next Monday is part two of the move, so please sign up here to help if you can. The listing is three hours but if you can only stop by for part of it then that would still be a great help. Part two promises fewer bikes and fewer stairs but more tools and boxes of bike parts. Can't wait!