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After seeing an article about recent changes to the bike policy I went to St Pancras to discuss it with them at the weekend.
The policy now appears to be:
Hand luggage - only folding bikes
Any other bikes must go as registered luggage (£25 on train within 24hrs, or booked on - £30 on same train).
There now appears to be no way to take a full sized bike, dismantled or not, on the train without paying.
Edit: have just seen this on the website, which I'm sure wasn't an option before:
If you can fold or dismantle your bike and place it in a bike bag between 85cm and 120cm at its longest, then you can use our turn-up-and-go registered luggage service for just £10 from London and 15€ from Paris or Brussels.
Which is annoying, since I've just paid for the full registered service. Might go and have words...