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05/9/2012 at 11:18pm
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When I worked for Sky, some years back I took advantage of the bike to work scheme, I bought a £1000 bike and Sky chipped in £500 towards it's purchase, or rental should I say, which was the max at the time.
The ironic thing though is, that I was a field rep with Sky at the time, doing around 40k business miles per year in a company car, so the bike was only ever used for personal use.
Anyway a year on from getting the bike, I got made redundant from Sky along with 1200 other folk, who's job's had been out sourced to agencies.
I still have the bike, and Sky never asked for any money back at the end, even in the T&C's it did say, a residual settlement would be asked for, or the bike could be returned to the owner, in this case Sky.
It's a great bike which I had custom made in Xian China by Tilon, all Titanium frame and handlebars, forks are Pace RC1 Carbon Fibre Rigid, Hope Mini-Disc up front, and gearing taken care of by a SRAM P7 Spectro 7 speed internal gear hub c/w with Drum brake.
My Son 27 now uses the bike to commute to work and back, the bike is seven years old and runs as new, so thanks to Sky for that.
Great scheme though, it has to be said.
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