newbember

Finally sorted even better then I have expected. Got a Specialized Turbo Vado SL 5.0 - completely happy with it. Its a hardtail, looks like bike and 16kg weight. Thanks everyone for advices and attention.

1800 right now, but I need to wait for my voucher at least 3 weeks.

Well maybe I`m kinda old fashion, but at my link in the topic start, bikes looks like a bikes, and all your model suggested - frames make me cry, its just ugly for me. I`m appreciate your opinion and thank you for your thoughts. Second vote against Shimano motors - definitely they are strike out of my list. Unfortunately I have no enough time and don`t have yet proper workshop/garage to play with it. Maybe in 2-3 years I will think about it, coz I have good friends in China and enough experience in finding proper quality goods there. List updated.

As far as I understand this scheme I just trying to get bike with ~40% discount, as I can see for 3k bike I will pay totally 1740, good deal looks for me. I`m playing Ingress (geo positioning game, Pokemons predcessor) so need cycle lot in different locations, streets, roads, Thames banks, forests.

Cycle2work scheme with budget up to 3000. Im 45yo 182cm/80kg. Want to get ebike with mid-drive motor, that looks like a bike and with weight below 20kg. Riding just for fun 10-30 miles a day and will glad to do more. Before I start search ideally it was crosscountry hardtail and then I`ve found that most of them much higher than 3k. So current list is: Specialized Turbo Vado SL 4.0 Boardman HYB 8.9E and just today found that prices goes down for Orbea Urrun 40. Its my first ebike so any advices/recommendations highly appreciated. Complete list from what I try to choose is here