staggerlee

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• Cycle to work scheme

  in General • 13 years, 6 months

  

  Warning- mature question:

  My 12 months Cycle to Work scheme is due to end next month. Cyclescheme were not involved and it was an agreement between me and my employer (as above)
  Instead of paying 25% to take possession of a one year old bike, I see Cyclescheme have introduced an Extended Use agreement where you pay a refundable deposit (7%), which runs for 36 months, at which point Cyclescheme may offer ownership to the employee. Cyclescheme then retain your deposit and you take ownership. You can leave your current job in the meantime and your Agreement is unaffected.
  Does anyone know if an Extended Use Agreement can be implemented when not using a third party like Cyclescheme, where the agreement is just between you and your employer?
  It would certainly take the sting off having to shell out the 25%.

• Brick Lane Bikes (BLB) Bike Shop

  in General • 13 years, 10 months

  

  I remember flashing an LCC card to chance a 10% discount. Cue looks of disdain all round. 'We don't usually get that kind of customer in here'.

• Cricket

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 1 month

  

  Textbook English opening. Boycott is very quiet.

• Lights

  in Bikes & Bits • 14 years, 2 months

  

  I like it Japeseye. I have one of these beauties and the battery pack doesn't half dangle loosely if using the velcro.

• Kitchen Plan's to be Drawn Up

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 3 months

  

  Have you employed a structural engineer?

• Kitchen Plan's to be Drawn Up

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 3 months

  

  Your architect will no doubt have to lodge a Building Control application for the works that show any new/alternations to existing drainage and any ventilation requirements to the new kitchen etc.
  Are you having any structural works done eg new steel beams? If so, this should form part of the Architect's Building Regs submission. And if there are any new beams these will need to be sized by a Structural Engineer and their calculations submitted.
  Best get the Building Regs Application in early as if there are any additional requirements by the council these can be incorporated into the build.
  I agree- unusual to have a percentage based fee for this one.

• Cycle to work scheme

  in General • 14 years, 4 months

  

  This sounds like it will be a real knock:
  "The 'acceptable disposal value percentage' of a bicycle bought on the scheme by an employer and transferred to the ownership of an employee a year later will now be 25 percent".
  If a cycle scheme is run privately in a firm as a salary sacrifice (without any intermediate company involved eg Cyclescheme) would these new conditions still be enforceable?

• Photos from mobile phones

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 4 months

  

  A shot taken on a small boat jetty during a visit to the South West coat of Sweden last week.....taken on the Nokia 6303.

• Photos from mobile phones

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 5 months

  

  Ta muchly GA2G...

• Photos from mobile phones

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 14 years, 5 months

  

  Looking out from Gorleston, North Norfolk taken on Ye Olde Nokia 6303.