Basically my work have a 'buy a bike' scheme, where they lend you the money and you pay it back over a year.

I can only buy it from Halfords though, and I have no idea about bikes, like, whatsoever.
the one I'd like to get is this one -

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_241755_langId_-1_CarSelectorCatalogId__CarSelectorGroupId__varient__categoryId_60955_crumb_33980-33957-31319_parentcategoryrn_60955

does anyone know anything about bikes? is this a good one? are there better?

bikes yay!