Free bike on free2cycle ?

[mark st1]

https://cyclingindustry.news/free2c...-scheme-with-free-bikes-for-employee-mileage/

Sound good or to good to be true ?

 

[Milkfloat]

So I assume this is a case of employer buying a bike at an inflated price and giving it to the employee for free, with no way to police that the bike is actually being used for the required commute.

I am sure my employer will love this.

 

[mark st1]

So I assume this is a case of employer buying a bike at an inflated price and giving it to the employee for free, with no way to police that the bike is actually being used for the required commute.

I am sure my employer will love this.

Not sure there is a video within the free2cycle website that states you have to run an app to prove your doing the to agreed miles via commuting. Not just driving all week then doing 50-100 miles on a Sunday lol.

Should imagine as you say though it will be open to abuse !

 

[Sixmile]

If only people could be trusted to be honest eh!

Seems a great idea but since my work bend over backwards to discourage cycling even with our massively overfilled carpark, I can't see this ever being a goer here.

 

[Chris S]

Sounds a bit like the Birmingham Orange Bikes scheme. Some muppets tried to sell theirs but most played by the rules.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-council-cycle-campaign-giving-10743213

 

[Slick]

To be honest, I'm quite sure plenty sniffed when the first CTW scheme was introduced. There will be some national employers falling over themselves to tick an environmental box by offering a scheme such as this. Link that to the threat of paying for a parking space at work and you could find people on both sides may be a bit more motivated. That, and an obvious chance for me to increase my fleet, what could possibly go wrong?

 

[lutonloony]

I've a feeling it could be tricky to justify this to my company, having just finished my ctw payoff, they don't seem to understand n+1