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[Closed] Can you buy a frame only through bike-to-work?

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As above, I'm after a nice carbon planet x jobby. I work for the NHS.


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 12:20 pm
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do you promise to ride it to work?


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 12:21 pm
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No


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 12:21 pm
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I'm 99% sure you can't.


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 12:22 pm
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I promise 😯


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 12:22 pm
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IIRC it has to be a complete bike.*

* I could be wrong.


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 12:26 pm
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Oh well, the whole bike it will be then. ta


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 12:30 pm
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Mainly as it's not yours, it's your employers bike until such time as they sell it to you. Could get a bit complex if you put all your own kit on it.


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 12:37 pm
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No, but i have heard tails were bike has been written on the forms instead of frame. But as above, be prepared to buy it at what ever cost if the job comes to an end before the scheme.


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 1:04 pm
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In the early days, I got a frame/fork/headset through work/Cyclescheme. I raised an eyebrow at the time, but employer/Cyclescheme/bikeshop didn't so I just got on with it 😉 Don't think you'd get away with it now through one of the one-stop-shop schemes unless you had an internal scheme..... and a friendly one at that!


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 1:10 pm
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Technically you aren't supposed to, but I'd have thought lots of places would be ok with it if you asked nicely...


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 1:14 pm
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on the NHS scheme I reckon it's unlikely. As bristolbiker says - your own scheme works well...


 
Posted : 14/02/2012 1:17 pm