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Bikes aren't allowed on deep-line trains (Piccadilly, Northern, Bakerloo, Central, Victoria, Jubilee) when they are anywhere underground. That's considered a safety issue. You can take bikes on all the sub-surface lines (Metropolitan, Hammersmith and City, Circle, District and East London, as was) outside of rush hour though.
The DLR was a separate entity when it was set up. It was a separate company that was part of LUL (don't know the complete mechanics of it) but they had their own safety case etc. Bikes on the DLR isn't a safety thing, it is apparently down to their insurance.
So... Might be a good issue to push Boris and or TfL on. Cos that insurance has to get renewed at some point. Just means they have to write a new safety case, with risk assessment for bikes, etc I guess.
Ignore the folding bikes in a bag thing - they never enforce that.