Anyone ride their bike to work?

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

It's a Scott Sportster, mid range, price in the shop was £420 if I remember correctly, but it had already been reduced being the previous year's model.

Is it a P55 by any chance?
I like the Scott Sportster, I have a well looked after P4. I think they only manufacured them for a year. No disc brakes but can be fitted, a nice bike.
Plus I have a couple of MTBs that I have repaired and built up from spares, to do a bit of rough stuff when I have urge/time.

 

[RonnyRaygun]

Is it a P55 by any chance?
I like the Scott Sportster, I have a well looked after P4. I think they only manufacured them for a year. No disc brakes but can be fitted, a nice bike.
Plus I have a couple of MTBs that I have repaired and built up from spares, to do a bit of rough stuff when I have urge/time.

Yeah, it is the P55. It's a good commuting bike, takes a bit of abuse which is good considering the state of the roads round my way!

Plus I have a couple of MTBs that I have repaired and built up from spares, to do a bit of rough stuff when I have urge/time.

Used to be really into my mountain biking when I lived in the Forest of Dean...not really much good mountain biking terrain where I live now...got an old Giant MTB which hasn't seen much use lately...and a racer which has seen even less...

 

[RonnyRaygun]

They are a cheaper way to acquire a certain product or service (you can get bus tickets and childcare vouchers etc through such schemes).
And don't forget that the scheme provider (which is NOT the employer), take a cut of the purchase cost, which in terms of bicycles is usually a 10% commission for companies such as Cyclescheme, Sodexho and Halfords who actually facilitate the scheme.

Lou.

The employer can run the scheme if they so wish. Mine does for both the cycle scheme and childcare vouchers, and I've taken full advantage of both!
Just means they've then got the associated admin costs also.

 

[joinerjohn]

My younger sister used to live in the Forest of Dean. 2 minutes walk from her old house and you could almost be lost in it. Stayed there one weekend and the walks were marvellous. Coleford was where she lived at the time.

 

[LooPrEvil]

They are a cheaper way to acquire a certain product or service (you can get bus tickets and childcare vouchers etc through such schemes).
And don't forget that the scheme provider (which is NOT the employer), take a cut of the purchase cost, which in terms of bicycles is usually a 10% commission for companies such as Cyclescheme, Sodexho and Halfords who actually facilitate the scheme.

Lou.

The employer can run the scheme if they so wish. Mine does for both the cycle scheme and childcare vouchers, and I've taken full advantage of both!
Just means they've then got the associated admin costs also.

Quite right. This is an option for companies but in reality only suitable to larger companies due to the implementation costs. Your company although having incurred some admin processes and costs, will actually find it is more cost effective for them, then transacting and transferring money to a third party provider. However, they will have used tax consultants to ensure that the scheme conforms to HMRC requirements, and is subsequently approved.

It cost £20k for my company to introduce our own inhouse scheme, and it took about 9 months for us to breakeven. Ideally, a good scheme will need very little administrative duties, and will nicely 'tick along'.

Lou

Lou.

 

[RonnyRaygun]

My younger sister used to live in the Forest of Dean. 2 minutes walk from her old house and you could almost be lost in it. Stayed there one weekend and the walks were marvellous. Coleford was where she lived at the time.

Great place, loved living there, but other half is a city girl so dragging her out to the edge of the M25 was a miracle!
Used to live about 4 miles from Coleford...had many a drunken Saturday night in Coleford!

 

[sooey]

Hmmm, passing a parked vehicle...which cyclists are allowed to do! All too often motorists seem to think cyclists have the ability to go over or through parked cars!

Give it a rest pal. He was twenty yards at least before the parked car when the van went past him.

20 yards is as close as you want to get before pulling out. If you suddenly swerve five yards from the car, that would be far worse...

Yeah, but you don't pull out without looking what's behind. This character knew the van was there, yet gets well out into the middle of the road as soon as he turns the corner. Even though the parked car at that stage was way ahead the other side of the zig zags. At that stage he should have been well over to the kerb to let the van go past. He was looking for an incident, and caused one. Which was why he had a camera on his head in the first place. Like I said, it's a pity he didn't pick a bus or an artic to tangle with. That would have been worth watching.

 

[RonnyRaygun]

Yeah, but you don't pull out without looking what's behind. This character knew the van was there, yet gets well out into the middle of the road as soon as he turns the corner. Even though the parked car at that stage was way ahead the other side of the zig zags. At that stage he should have been well over to the kerb to let the van go past. He was looking for an incident, and caused one. Which was why he had a camera on his head in the first place. Like I said, it's a pity he didn't pick a bus or an artic to tangle with. That would have been worth watching.

 

[daozen]

Yeah, but you don't pull out without looking what's behind. This character knew the van was there, yet gets well out into the middle of the road as soon as he turns the corner. Even though the parked car at that stage was way ahead the other side of the zig zags. At that stage he should have been well over to the kerb to let the van go past. He was looking for an incident, and caused one. Which was why he had a camera on his head in the first place. Like I said, it's a pity he didn't pick a bus or an artic to tangle with. That would have been worth watching.

Its probably the cyclists experience that he needs out that early because on knob head drivers like the moron in the van, I know its mine. Once he's in the lane he has the right to be there as in by law, whether you like it or not. The van drive is just an impatient pr!ck.