cyclescheme limit £4950 - happy days

darkside80
darkside80 Posts: 39
edited November 2009 in Commuting chat
Just discovered my work's cyclescheme has a limit of £4950!!

That opens up a lot more options now! It was a nice suprise as I work for nhs...

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  • DonDaddyD
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Are you sure that's not the size of the cyclescheme budget for the entire NHS? ;)
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Wow.. and all that is tax free??? wow

    where'd you work?
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Yeah where do you work?!

    In my part of the NHS we are limited to £1000 and have just two weeks to apply for our money from a total budget of £12,000
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • Guys & thomas hospital.

    All other hospitals I've worked at have the usual £1000 limit
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Ahhhh see the Ambulance Service are once again the poor relations of the NHS :wink:
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • Does that £4950 limit have to be spent on a single bike? :lol:

    Or could you get a nice bike for all seaons? eg.
    Titanium framed racer
    Titanium framed hardtail
    A nice understated Trek District (now available in colours other than "nick me orange") or similar fixie/ss

    Ooo, the possibilities!

    Just hope for your sake that you don't get a "mint" bike and then discover Guys have a cyclescheme snitch who reports which employees are not using their salary sacrifice bike for at least half of each week! :twisted:
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  • DevUK
    DevUK Posts: 299
    I'm limited to £750! Bloody higher education skin flints!
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  • pastryboy
    pastryboy Posts: 1,385
    I thought it was only places that held a consumer credit license that went over the £1k - sounds like you got lucky.
  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    It is only if there is a consumer credit licence that the £1,000 limit can be increased. My company has a £3,600 limit (used to be £3k but I raised it due to the current price increases :wink::D )
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  • hodsgod
    hodsgod Posts: 226
    Bloody hell, you can get us all a new light!!