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Correct, so not most folk on here then.
Are we sure most folk in here ride bikes and just don't read about riding bikes?
At least the ops using his bike.
It will be a commute bike on a daily basis. My new work doesn’t have covered parking so don’t like using my Diverge.
Not sure ‘get financial help fixing your second bike to protect your nice one’ was the intent of the scheme.
Why do people think the voucher scheme has anything to do with income?
The form doesn’t ask any questions about income.
Correct, form doesn't say anything about income. However I guess people assume if the vouchers are hard to get / limited numbers they should be left to those in need more. For example someone how genuinely cant afford to fix their bike rather than someone whos just using it to get a few quid off their bill.
Personally, I couldn't care less if its within the rules its within the rules. I tried to get a voucher site had crashed, or they had all been given out so didnt bother trying again.
Why do we have to judge?
Have you not been here long!!!
if the vouchers are hard to get
Wasn't at all, I got mine sort of as a by product of showing a pupil what his mum and dad would need to do to get one to get his Stinky fixed.....his parents didn't bother though, must be middle class 😜
income. However I guess people assume if the vouchers are hard to get / limited numbers they should be left to those in need more. For example someone how genuinely cant afford to fix their bike rather than someone whos just using it to get a few quid off their bill.
Who is marshaling the scheme to make sure no one gets a code who doesn't need it? Noone. Do we think everyone in Britain will have these standards? Absolutely not, the website crashed because everyone wanted a code. We even had a thread about it on stw.
The government risk assessed it. They worked out how much it would cost to administer, what it would cost to investigate if they made it means tested and decided that it wasn't worth it for the couple of million they put aside and just made it a free for all.
A better fairer system would be to reduce the tax on bike parts but that would cost a significantly more than the token effort they put forward for this.
I wonder how many on here are on their high horse simply because they missed the boat?
Blimey, some self righteous people about.
AA from what I remember you're a secondary teacher, so after the year you've probably had I wouldn't begrudge you using that scheme at all.
I think there have been far bigger abuses of using public funds (not saying AA did) than someone using a £50 voucher within the rules. I think some people should step away from the key board, stop being so judgemental and enjoy the sunshine.
I haven't read the thread, but I didn't apply for a voucher cos I fix my own bikes. Good question though.
(LOL. I read it really! hahaha! Was almost exactly as I expected!)
I think the angst about accepting a handout as compared to a tax break is most amusing!
I didnt apply for one for the same reasons I didn't apply for any of the personal Covid grants I could have - I didnt need it (yet).
With some of the same reasoning displayed, then many of us shouldn't have used the eat out to help out too.
When I said "good question" I obviously meant as a thread to troll STW. Obv innit. And ... hook, line and sinker.
Wait until you find out about how much money the Government threw at their friends at Serco... a few bike vouchers aren’t even a drop in the ocean
Given the limited number of vouchers available, it was clear that for everyone who applied for one who didn't really need it, someone who probably really could have done with one will have missed out
Some people are just a little greedy however, so I assume didn't consider this
Wait until you find out about how much money the Government threw at their friends at Serco… a few bike vouchers aren’t even a drop in the ocean
Well that's the thing, if we all behaved like we're just on a lower tier of the Chumocracy, take any opportunity to skim the public purse because Gove's mates get millions for imaginary PPE, it simply helps erode the idea off helping those in genuine need before yourself...
With some of the same reasoning displayed, then many of us shouldn’t have used the eat out to help out too.
Excellent straw-manning!
"Eat out to help out" was based on precisely the same reasoning, cheap Pub grub to prop up Weatherspoons (other pub-chains are available), and serviceable bikes so the punters could get there and back...
Who is marshaling the scheme to make sure no one gets a code who doesn’t need it?
The Scheme relied on an antiquated concept known as "honesty", you know as there was a pandemic on, and more important things to administer...
I'm simultaneously glad they chose not to throw extra effort or a Dido Harding at means assessing bloody bicycle vouchers, and saddened that people who already owned working bikes and/or had the means to fix their bike couldn't be trusted not to take the piss...
By the way OP you've deftly managed not to mention how many working bikes you owned before taking up the voucher. Don't suppose you'd care to share?
This is brilliant! Keep going. I’ll throw some faux disgust at the OP just to keep things churning.
A man who has to cycle 400 miles per day to get to work on his 76.5 hour shift to feed his nine children, support his wife (who can’t work for reasons) and bed ridden gran got fired because you took his voucher. Monster!
Ok I define it as any 40% tax rate payer, I’ therefore not middle class..
Nah. Not any 40% tax rate payer. F'rinstance anyone on fiddy notverymuch grand but paying 40% marginal tax is very unlikely to be middle class.
A man who has to cycle 400 miles per day to get to work on his 76.5 hour shift to feed his nine children, support his wife (who can’t work for reasons) and bed ridden gran got fired because you took his voucher. Monster!
I must humbly apologise, what more can I do, so very sorry...
what more can I do
Donate £50 to Reading Bicycle Kitchen, they're only one town over, you could pedal there on your pub bike 😉
what more can I do
Apply for another voucher. See if you can get one of the regulars to explode
Donate £50 to Reading Bicycle Kitchen, they’re only one town over, you could pedal there on your pub bike
I've actually donated to them before but not for a while, Jackson's Corners not there anymore is it? I tend to keep all my bike stuff till it wears out though so it's not of any use. I will take your suggestion on board, however just for clarity .....
I must humbly apologise, what more can I do, so very sorry…
was taking the piss
Apply for another voucher. See if you can get one of the regulars to explode
Good point I have an old Giant Defy in the loft I am saving for my son to grow into......
was taking the piss
I think we all are now...
Jackson’s Corners not there anymore is it?
They've moved to the industrial estate just outside the IDR, not too far from the train station.
https://road.cc/content/news/north-south-divide-uptake-fix-your-bike-vouchers-283647
Government figures reveal people in London, South East and South West were most likely to take up £50 voucher offer
Bloody posh southerners coming here stealing our vouchers
🙂 STW will explode now.
Perhaps is because poor people cant afford the internet and didn't know you could get a voucher.
I’m poor
I live in the South
I didn’t get a voucher
I couldn’t afford to buy the internet
I can afford an internet connection though