Provence this September

Thanks for the reply.

The disassembled bike will fit overhead rack?
I don't remember how big it was but then again I didn't
really pay too much attention. Guess I will know when
I get there. I am sure I will find SOME place for the bike.

The bag I use is not one of those proper (and expensive) "housse" that
one's supposed to use. It is just a really large trash
bag (actually a clear, thin plastic liner for 55-gallon hazardous waste
container/drum - I use a new, clean one, of course!)

Last year I used it on three TGV rides (put at the end of the
carriage) with no problem.
Some funny looks here and there but the conductors didn't say anything,

The bag is just plastic so very light and I just carried w/ me all along.
Didn't effect the weight of my pannier luggage at all.

Good day.


"Mathieu Peyréga" wrote in message
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Hello

I will be going next month on TGV (Paris-St. Jean de Luz and then
Collioure-Paris)

I do have a bike bag 120 x 90 cm but I know the large luggage racks at
the
end of carriages (which is what I used last two years) are now sealed
off
according to SNCF.
Where can one put the disassembled bike on the TGV carriage?

I'm not sure wether the luggage racks are still closed but you may be
right...
Anyway, SNCF did not changed the rules and bikes are still allowed...
I suggest you should try to arrive early at the station (no more than 20
minutes early : trains arrive in the terminal-stations 20 minutes before
the time to leave). Getting there early will let you have your
dissassembled bike in the luggage compartment above your seat. They are
quite big and I know it can be done. The last solution is just to let it
in the lobby next to your seat and to move it when it is an issue (child
seats and so on...)

The other issue is : what do you do with your bag then ? Do you carry it
all over your trip ?