London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

I am pondering the idea of taking my bike with me on a trip to spain, which will mean I need to take the bike on a night train from Paris to Barcelona. All evidence I am finding online is indicating that the french don't take bikes on trains, meaning that I am likely to need to pack the bike in a bag of some sort and hope for the best.

This being the case, what do people recommend for transporting a bike by train when you aren't supposed to ?

Thanks

Julia

if you look through this section (Travel & tips), you should able to find a handful of topic regarding the eurostar, bike bag (talk about train too) etc.

they got some stuff there.

I took my bike on trains in France last summer and it was totally fine, most trains had dedicated bike carriages.

Most local and regional trains have some form of bike carriage, the TGV does not....but if you take a small foldable bike bag you will be fine.

me and my friend took our bikes on a train when we were in france, there were around 4 bike places per train and we were advised to book places for them... we were told by the station manager that the TGV didnt take bikes, but there were places next to guards room on the front and we got them on... generally what we found was, there are places for normal or folding bikes they just dont really want you to have them for some reason.

if i went again id book trains in advance and get some one who speaks french to ring for me so that we got some bike reservations