If the remedy is poor VFM. if your bike to work voucher had a typo and read £6500 what would you get?

a car

Yamaha WR450f, or a KTM if I could top it up with my own money

A car, a motorbike and a bike.

(3k/2k/1.5k/)

you're allowed to spend c2w on multiple things, so I think I'd get a

top line blood (3.5k)
carbon road bike (1k)
carbon xc bike (2k)
lid, some beefy locks, some nice lights (£500)

5 Spot & CCDB, Full XTR inc brakes and wheels, Thompson post/stem, Hope BB & Ahead, Easton Bar.

I can dream.

Ohh if we're splitting it………

£1600 Spesh pitch
£550 CCDB
£??? Fox Float36 RC2
£250 Flows on pro2
£1000 XTR Di2 (or whatever it costs)
= £4250 or thereabouts but you can flog the original forks, wheels, shock for ~£500

£250 Free agent Ambush (24" cruiser)

£1100 Frame off the Dave Yates framebuilding course
£600 race wheels
Leaving about £800 to finish the build with middling stuff.

In the spirit of the thread.
I'd go for one of these

Plus loads of clothing.

Six and a half grand exactly.

I would save it and pay my uni stuff……Lol jks I would buy 2 ridley crossnights…

I've just bought a garage!
HTH

A holiday and a nice watch…

I'd budget £2.5k on a bike that you'll still be able to afford like for like replacement of worn out parts with and put £3.5k into an ISA. The remaining £500 would be spent on my significant other.

"and put £3.5k into an ISA"

I bet your a hoot at dinner parties.

Just the watch. 6.5k on something you are going to knacker up with rocks and stones? No thanks.

*hoots*

…mon. Theres a moose loose aboot this hoose.