Cycle to Work

[Alex1982]

I bought wheels for my TT bike on cycle to work- no one said anything

That’s against the rules tut tut 😂

 

[Alex1982]

Yeh sadly with Canyon that won't be possible, well you can ask I guess, but I can't see it getting through to be honest.
Can you not pick a bike one rung lower spec wise, and then just upgrade in the future, or remove those parts, sell them on as new, and replace them with the ones you wanted?

I've known of local bike shops before where they have been happy to adapt things to help the customer, and them of course.
The scheme is now a LOT more flexible than it used to be, so I don't see any 'rules' being broken by buying a TT bike.
Whack a tailfin on the rack, and you could happily commute in on it, good training ;-)

You can buy parts, and clothing as well now on the scheme, I've bought a DA groupset as well, all fully up front, with it being itemised on the form I had to fill in to receive the voucher, took it to the shop and walked out with the parts.
You can also do the same if you wanted to kit yourself out head to toe with Rapha.

P.S very jealous of your 4k limit, I was delighted when I managed to talk mine up to 3!

No as bike is £4600 or £3800 but sizing is a problem

Keep my eye on size for the lower spec one

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

One downside of the C2W scheme, or indeed any salary sacrifice scheme, is that it can have an impact, albeit it small, on your pension.

It never used to be a problem at all for those under a final salary pension scheme, just don’t take out anything in your last year or two. However many have moved over to a career average scheme where any salary sacrifice will have an impact.

 

[Alex1982]

All sorted.

“Commuting” TT bike ordered

 

[PaulSB]

The C2W scheme is outrageously unfair and as this thread demonstrates, open to serious abuse. This is not a criticism of the OP but of this not fit for purpose scheme. It is simply wrong, immoral that individuals who wish to spend £0000s on a bike get help in this manner when such help is denied to others.

I'm very much in favour of supporting those who need bikes to commute. Support for those who wish to buy recreational bikes should either be extended to all cyclists or abolished. The scheme is broken and should be abandoned in favour of a new scheme which is not open to such obvious abuse.

Why should some who is recreational cyclist be denied financial support to purchase a bike?

 

[bikingdad90]

I agree, however I am aware some local authorities offer an assistance scheme in the form of e motorcycles to help those can’t use public transport to get to work. It’s like a free hire/loan arrangement involving public subsidy. That said I have never met anyone who qualified and had one.

 

[Dogtrousers]

The C2W scheme is outrageously unfair and as this thread demonstrates, open to serious abuse. This is not a criticism of the OP but of this not fit for purpose scheme.

It is simply wrong, immoral that individuals who wish to spend £0000s on a bike get help in this manner when such help is denied to others.

I'm very much in favour of supporting those who need bikes to commute. Support for those who wish to buy recreational bikes should either be extended to all cyclists or abolished.

The scheme is broken and should be abandoned in favour of a new scheme which is not open to such obvious abuse.

Why should some who is recreational cyclist be denied financial support to purchase a bike?

I agree that it's open to abuse, but not that it's unfair. It's not the case that support for buying bikes for recreational use is denied to recreational cyclists. It's denied to everyone. It's just that some people can abuse the scheme to get it.

I can't see any case at all for it it be extended to all cyclists. It has a very specific remit: to encourage people to cycle to work, as per the name.

Maybe they view the inevitable abuse as just an incidental cost of achieving their aim, which is getting people cycling to work. Maybe they've factored it in and decided it's acceptable as long as it gets some people cycling to work. Maybe, maybe not.

It's not unfair. In the same way that it's not unfair that my local shop doesn't have security scanners on the doors with the result that some people can nick tins of beans, while I pay for them. Waaah, where are my free beans? No fair!