Have you considered a company bike? These are like company cars,
leased, often inclusive of servicing and a replacement bike when your
machine is being serviced or repaired. After typically 3 years (like the
cars) the bike is renewed and generally the old bike is offered to the user.
If you are close to Guildford it might be worth pricing a long-term hire
from the Automated Brompton Dock there - basically for the cost of about
15 miles/day cycling a fully serviced bike that can also be used with
bus or train.
Some interesting pricing on larger installations - option of leasing 10
bikes/10 space dock and Brompton Dock manages the hires and revenue -
revenue share will repay lease cost at around 50-60% utilisation of 10
bikes but 'productivity ' can be increased when long term hires keep
bikes out of the docking point - each bike bin can then support 2-4
bikes out on hire. Further cost reduction could be delivered by sale of
branding, or contribution from publicity budget of the lessee site
(bikes in NHS, University, Event (eg Glasgow 2014) schemes promote the
event where ever the bikes go)
Dave Holladay
On 16/09/11 12:13, Peter R.H. Wood wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I'm trying to work out claiming bike mileage for my fieldwork, and for-work travel. Currently I can claim 12p a mile by bike, or 38.5 by car.
>
> HMRC guidance [www.hmrc.gov.uk/rates/travel.htm] says that you can claim back from tax up to 20p for bikes or 45p in cars. Except I don't pay tax, because it's a stipend. So me cycling gets 60% of the HMRC rate, and drivers get 85%.
>
> Finance dept has said that this rate is set in negotiations between HR and the Unions: "The car mileage rates are more likely to rise as the cost of driving is increasing rapidly, whilst the cost of cycling does not vary significantly. Neither car nor bicycle rates are as high as the HMRC approved mileage rates.
>
> I am not sure to whom you would need to make a case to get the rates increased, but I would imagine that you would have to demonstrate that the cost of cycling has increased, which I imagine would be difficult to do."
>
> Primarily, does anyone know how I can make a case that the cost of cycling has increased recently?
>
> Secondly, does anyone have any other relevant and previously successful arguments in situations like this? (I did mention that their own travel plan recommends encouraging cycling for institutional reasons, that people who cycle are on average more productive per hour, ill less, and that encouraging cycling will mean marginal cost savings vs paying fully double the price for car drivers. No response on that regard.)
>
> Best,
>
> Pete
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