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  • I was recently looking at bikes on the Bike To Work scheme and checked out what was available in Evans. They were quite happy with the idea of me buying a more expensive bike than the voucher would cover if I wanted to top up the remainder.

    I can't imagine you would have a problem with trying to give a company more money. However, if Evans to find some reason to decline, just go to another bike shop.

  • I'm running our company c2w and as it was explained to me its a bit of a gray area if you spend more than the 1k. If your company top it at 1k and you pay evans the extra 700 quid for that must have shiny bike then in theory you could lose out. C2w is essentially leasing the bike from the company for the monthly amount and should something go wrong, you know like a flying uppercut to a managing director and you find yourself out of work. The bike belongs to them. Now in theory the company will almost always simply let to pay of the remainder and walk away with the bike. BUT if they want to be cunts they could keep the bike ( its their property you just lease it) and youre stuffed. If its a 1k bike its not the end of the world, you flip them off and they are stuck with both the remaining lease debt and a bike they'll have to find a new owner for. But if you top up then they get a 1.5k bike for 1k. Its not a likely scenario but worth thinking about. I also state right now that I might have got the wrong end of the stick when the nice woman explained it to me.

    Officially the company can extend beyond 1k and you make huge saving on the full amount but this is at both the discretion of the company and whoever they use to run the scheme.

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