Cycle to Work schemes 'like the wild west' as row over commissions rumbles on

Cycle to Work Alliance and Association of Cycle Traders in ongoing dialogue to force change but still 'poles apart' over commission fee issue

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The row over Cycle to Work schemes charging high commission fees continues, despite the opening of dialogue between the bodies which represent retailers and Cycle to Work schemes.

Retailers have once more called for urgent regulation of the various schemes after the news that the Cycle to Work Alliance - which represents several of the leading scheme providers - and the Association of Cycle Traders [ACT] were collaborating in order to force change and reform. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.