Ride2Work / Evans / Cycle to Work issues

rousseau

Hi there,

I work for a large company that offers the Ride2Work Cycle to Work scheme. As I understand it, this is an Evans' administered version of the general Cycle to Work scheme.

However, I want to buy my bike from another shop who do their own customisable bikes.

Does anyone know any ways around this as it seems ridiculous to be so buttonholed, especially since it makes no difference at all to my company at all?

Thanks in advance,

Leo

cookeeemonster

pretty sure it's your company that'd have to sort things out. I had the same problem as you...had to go with Evans

Sprockety

Hiya, Im going through my company's scheme at the moment, however its CycleScheme so you can go with whatever company you like. A company can only be signed up to one cycle to work scheme at a time and I know that Cheshire East is even having to put out to tender who they have next! It does also say on the Evans specific one that "Components such as pedals, brakes, chains, hubs etc" are not included, however I dont know if that means a built specifically for you bike. You dont look to have a choice as to go with Evans though by the looks of it.

lardboy

The Evans website is nonsense. They stop you from getting decent tyres or tools or anything outside of the very limited list.

However, if you go into the store, you can order just about anything in stock, with the exception of things that could blatantly be used as upgrade components on other bikes. This means no wheelsets, groupsets or frame only sales, but as long as you're getting a bike from their range that you can reasonably use to commute on (any hybrid, road, CX or MTB, but no BMX, kids bikes etc) then additional bits for that bike and for commuting is fine, so waterproofs, helmet, SPDs, shoes, guard, rack, decent tyres, spare tubes, multi tool, levers can be added.

The rules as they are interpreted in store are spot on for the spirit of the C2W scheme. If you're hoping to get a grands worth of top of the range components tax-free, you're out of luck.