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It says you can take a bagged folding bike which is not longer than 85cm. S&S couplings aim to make a bike's max length 66 cm. Or you can try the Rinko approach, where you remove the forks. Some diamond framed bikes would sneak under the 85cm limit. My size 56 bike would be 95cm long. Maybe the Eurostar staff would let me get away with it?
eta: Much of my post is a repeat of what's already been said - sorry. But I think the S&S bit is new? I have them on a steel bike and was able to get a bit of value out of them by taking them on a 'no bikes allowed' bus and train in the US.
The question of bags, whether for an S&S or Rinko approach, or anything really, is easily solved by making a cardboard box of the required size, with gaffer tape. You carry it with some nylon straps, and you bin it at your destination. So you only have to carry a couple of grams' worth of straps while touring. When you go home you just buy some tape, scrounge some cardboard from shops or bins, and make another box.