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I've just brought this home, it was free!
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christmas bonus? oh you mean the redundancy check i am getting in 9 weeks.
I got £5.00 tip this year, can't wait for the sales 😉
No bonus as such but did buy myself a Mountain Cycle Rumble LTD Edition frame, will be a few weeks till she's up an runnin though, something to look forward to me thinks..
Yup, a grey un 🙂
No bonus though...just debt. 🙁
No bonus here... but I did end up selling a lot of holiday back to work.
Trying to talk myself out of a 1993 Cannondale Delta V on ebay. I don't need it it's just because it looks nice.
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Should I?
Id like to echo others mentions of what bonus and raise you a voucher to spend in go outdoors woooooo really glad i did all that hard work for them this year.
My employers stopped paying Christmas bonuses about 1992. I do get a performance related bonus but don't get that until March, well after the tax man has taken 40% of course...
Hey Eve - cool beach bike - i likey 🙂
I'm not sure what to do with it, any ideas? 😕
Bonus? I'm grateful to still have a job.
Bah Humbug !
Repair & sell/use?
If I had the room I'd love one
No, but i did buy a 37 inch LCD tv and bluray player with my bonus.
My company is thankfully bucking the global recession trend and gave everyone a bonus this Xmas. The deeply cool bit was that everyone from the CEO down to the part time secretaries got the same. The part timers were absolutely blown away (not that much) and it's great since everyone does contribute. My bonus - not sure where bike related - got to get over the Missus "one bike in one bike out policy" first.
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not really a xmas bonus as such, but ive had some cash floating around from the sale of my last bike so i thought id treat myself to a new steed before the races start again!
Should be a real beaut!
Matt
thinking about a Tomac Vanish to replace my ageing heckler
got me one of these
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After our 6% pay cut they decided to give us £500 as a goodwill gesture.
So it has gone on a hustler frame 2nd hand to replace the dead meta
i got one of these with my bonus...
and it is very nice too..
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I got me some XT shifters & mechs and some SLX brakes for the Nicolai with some overtime I got this month, no bonus though 😕
wozza - do it!
I saw it too! 🙂
In April I was promised up to a 4% payrise for my team and I if we met a certain number of targets by September, which we have done.
I was told last week that, if they gave us that payrise, they'd likely then have to lay someone off come next April. So, no extra cash coming our way.
Really glad I've been working all those extra hours, to the detriment of my relationship and biking time 🙁
No pay rise but full bonus this year with company posting record profits. I had a large clear out sold the tracer and bought an uzzi vp, also have a yeti dj frame on order courtsey of the bonus this year. Can't complain at all this year and feel very lucky to be in the position I am in compared to some.
No Xmas bonus for me, but I'll be taking a wee slice of my forthcoming tax rebate to buy a Ti tourer and a Cross bike of some sort. Can't make up my mind between the Yeti ARC-X and an Ibis Hakkalugi.
NHS don't do bonuses! I'm stuck with my Spesh for another year unless anyone has more of a bonus than they can cope with? 😆
No bonus as such, i did however get a pretty decent promotion. And with that came an extra ten days off shore. So as a little well done to myself i'm thinking about a Planet X SL Carbon with ultegra build in the new year.
Should probably pay off the car instead, hay ho.
Eve Libertine - Member
I'm not sure what to do with it, any ideas?
wheelies? 😉
Not a bike no but a van and 911 😮
Christmas bonus = being made redundant on Christmas Eve. Super.
No bonus for me either, but I've split & sold off two bikes, so went & bought a white Turner DW Flux on Saturday.
Ton - see you at Hit the North - Are you going to have a crack at the full Whinlatter again or just the half? I can't decide after crawling over the line second last, last year - but should be better prepared this year.
So, this thread went well. Glad you've got a bonus and a new bike ton anyway. No-one needs that more than you. 😀
BigDummy - Member
So, this thread went well. Glad you've got a bonus and a new bike ton anyway. No-one needs that more than you.
you sad cinical ****er.............
and to the rest of you.....nice one, there are gonna be some very nice bikes knocking around the trails come the spring...
and it is good to see it is not all doom and gloom... 8)
Witness the smiley lad. I'm happy for you. 🙂
Ah but all folks (like me) with no xmas bonus - all these folks with their shiny new bikes will hopefully be shifting old ones on cheap...
which is always a good thing.......
some cracking secondhand bargain to be had, specially if you are 6ft2'' or bigger. 8)
still deciding what bike to get, Rockhopper SL Comp(hate the white colour), Cannondale Trail SL3 or a KHS XTC-604
Got a bonus but had already got the boys a Rothan & a Cnoc14 from Islabikes.
And a new Giro lid each...mini versions of the Xen. They look ace.
Cant wait till Xmas day when they'll probably cast the bikes aside in lieu of some cheap toy or other, or more likely the boxes that they came in.
On my expected tips I have bought these
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Not strictly a bonus, but as I have only taken 10 of my 29 days leave this year I have been promised to be paid the difference in next months pay. I hope so, already put it towards a Scott Scale.
Very surprised to get a bonus (we didn't get a pay rise) this year. My wife was even more surprised when I said "we may as add it to the never ending hole in the money pit that is our house renovation"
But 0% APR, a ride back on a demo in October and much machination since meant I couldn't walk past one of these
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Due in Jan (although Orange are not known for hitting delivery dates), transfer the stuff off my HT (which I intend to build back up by stealth) and hope I'm as blown away as I was on the demo one.
Got to sell some bikes come spring tho. That's six plus a frame.
No bonus and no job as soon as employer decides to let me go home - nothing to do as all finished by 9.15 this morning...and I was finding stuff to do! No redundancy as under 2 years service.
Have been busy selling stuff though, which has paid for some new bits and a new HT frame to hang it on, plus some Float R's for the FS, which has given up it's Talas RLC's for the HT project. I'm sure I can find some more to sell post xmas too...my old pushed Talas 32 forks for one.
Not a new bike, just the bits to give this singlespeed lark a try on the cheap. If I get on with it then a slot drop Inbred frame could be on the cards early next year unless Ton lists his new Gary Fisher at a good price 😉
Evil Soverign from Biketart.com
I've spent a boring last day at work researching blowing my bonus on a SS 29er.
Unless I get a Inbred I may need go the secondhand route...