Our cycle to work scheme window has reopened (March and September). I got a bike in the September window last year and was wondering if anybody had experience of getting more than one bike at seperate times on a cycle to work scheme.

Any advice welcome

Cheers

Ken

Taking the piss no ?

At our place the scheme's open year round, but you can only have one bike at a time.

My understanding of our scheme is that I can only have a new bike after 3 years has passed 🙁

Your HR/payroll department is unlikely to care, ask them about it.

Or just apply and wait to see if they try to stop you.

Our scheme allows you to get one bike per year. A couple of colleagues are onto their 2nd bike through the scheme.

The most recent one had been commuting at least a couple of days per week on the mountain bike he got first, and the 2nd bike (just over a year after the first) is going to be a cyclecross bike which will almost exclusively be used for commuting. All that sounds well within the spirit of the scheme to me.

Given the bike must be used "mainly for journeys to work" (IIRC) it seems to me you could buy as many as you like as long as that's how you use them.

No doubt druidh will issue an edict shortly.

all the pies

Why would I be taking the piss? It's a perfectly valid question

Glad to see you acknowledging my authority in these matters Al.

From the (freely available) DfT guidelines…

It is possible to loan two cycles to one employee if, for example, that employee needed a cycle at either end of a train journey between their home and place of work.

and, of course

more than 50% of use of the cycle and safety equipment must involve a qualifying journey.

So – no reason you couldn't have two bikes on the scheme. Ride each of them twice a week to and from work and you've covered to ride them both at the weekend.

as long as your employer allows it you can get another as long as the hire period for the existing bike has finished

rootes1 – Member
as long as your employer allows it you can get another as long as the hire period for the existing bike has finished

That restriction is not suggested in the DfT guidelines. It is more likely to be in the hands of the employer.

It was more a reference to your assumption of authority.

Hadn't been intending getting a 2nd bike-to-work bike myself but I've just received an email from Cotic describing a hydro-disk braked, Alfined RoadRat for under £1000…

rootes1 – Member
as long as your employer allows it you can get another as long as the hire period for the existing bike has finished

That restriction is not suggested in the DfT guidelines. It is more likely to be in the hands of the employer.

true not explicitly stated, but if you had already maxed out at say £1000 on the first bike, you could not get another whilst the hire of the first bike is still ongoing as it was take the value of hired equipment beyond £1000 (employer could have a higher limit with credit licence).

you could get two bikes if the total value was less that your schemes limit.

The £1,000 figure relates to each loan. There does not seem to be any restriction on having more than one loan per employee (at least not that I can find).

My employer prefers individuals to leave 2 or 3 years between bikes.
I think this is sensible.

The £1,000 figure relates to each loan. There does not seem to be any restriction on having more than one loan per employee (at least not that I can find).

true, – HMRC might take exception to two lots of salary sacrifice

so yes probably main control is how the employer has ste the scheme up.

ours is sacrifice for 12, hire for 18 months, not alloed to apply again until the pevious hire period has expired.

though getting another bike so quickly really does seem to be out of the spirit of the scheme

– not that that seems to stop people getting full sus that they never use to get to work.. grr

My employer prefers individuals to leave 2 or 3 years between bikes.
I think this is sensible.

Tell that to Ton

I've just got my second – approx 12 months since salary sacrifice finished on lst one – it's on a company administered scheme and our accountant cleared it with HMRC – no issues i'm told.

S'pose I ought to wait for the payment period to be up on the 1st one although I have just moved offices into London so could commute from Euston to the new office 😀

This is starting to sound like a plan

Anybody recommend a cool folding bike to take on the train?

Anybody recommend a cool folding bike to take on the train?

only sensible choice is a Brompton

ken_shields – Member

Anybody recommend a cool folding bike to take on the train?

An Oxymoron Shirley?

An Oxymoron Shirley

Never even heard of Oxymoron Bikes, and surely something called a "Shirley" will have pink tassles on the bars and a basket?

Doesn't sound very cool to me.

p if you have never own a Brompton – it is easy to be scepticle, but once you have one they are a relevation – i use mine every day, lots of benefits that are not immeadiatly obvious

😆