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Was considering doing it on an existing road bike with a friend , neither of us have touring experience hence the reasonining to split the travel between train and bike . I did suspect that there would be problems with bikes on trains . Suppose I could try and pick and choose routes which are more bike friendly ?
tom-g
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I've not interrailed but my experience of trains and bikes in Europe is nothing but hassle. Fast trains won't accept bikes that aren't broken down in bike bags (aka can be treated as normal luggage). Some but not neccessarily all (at least in Spain) regional trains will take bikes but it can be hard to get accurate information about what the local exceptions are.
Rail replacement transport won't accept bikes unless they are in bike bags.
Consider a Brompton?