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I've travelled with a fully assembled bike on regional trains in Italy and it was pretty easy. I think technically they can say no if the train is especially busy, but mine never were. There was lots of space. Maybe even a dedicated carriage.
I've also travelled on these trains with a boxed bike, which was obviously no issue either.
The only downside was that these regional trains were a bit slower than the high speed inter city trains on which I think your bike has to be boxed.
I used the Deutsche Bahn app which has a box you can tick for bikes and filters the results accordingly. Not sure if it's still as effective as it was when I used it a while back.
I also once did Paris to Milan on a busy TGV with a boxed bike that ticked all the boxes in terms of what was allowed, but there wasn't really anywhere for it to actually go so the whole journey was mildly stressful.