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If you live/work in London it's not difficult.
Just book your ticket as you would if you weren't taking a bike. When you've booked it, just take your bike to the baggage drop-off counter the day before your train journey. Show them your ticket, pay £25, get a receipt, go home by public transport. They'll put it on the next train with space. You get your train the next day, walk round to the baggage counter at Gare du Nord, show them your receipt, cycle your bike away.
Unless you arrive at Gare du Nord baggage and they've all buggered off for lunch. Then you'll have to wait til they get back.
The more trains between when you take the bike and your train, the more chance it'll already be there when you get there.
For coming back from Paris you can either do the same, or drop your bike off just before boarding your train, public transport your way home from London, and collect your bike from there another day.
Philbythesea-
Doesn't sound 'difficult'. But it does sound 'shit'.
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sounds like a plan, thanks for that, but as I mentioned the thought for the weekend away was to ride up to station shove bike on board, ride bike from destination station to apartment.
Yours is a bit of a workaround, and the best way probably, but it still feels like a lot of work for something that should be so much simpler, and seeing as there feels like there's more cycling provision on the continent it would behoove them to make it easier to take bikes along.
Howard
cornelius_blackfoot
was hoping to organise a weekend jaunt with bikes to paris, and this all seems very difficult indeed.
With the process being split and only limited bike space, it puts the kibosh on rolling up, breaking bike down (taking off wheels, pushing down seatpost, turning round handlebars), putting into soft bag and then taking overnight bag onto train and rebuilding the other end.
Which is what I was hoping to do.
If you're chasing cheap tickets, it means you'll never be sure that your bike will be with you when you get off the other end...
Frustrated..