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Alternatively, check in your bike at the Eurostar Baggage Office at the railway station up to one hour before your train departure. This service also costs £20, but there is no guarantee that you and your cycle will travel on the same train. In this case, your bike will usually arrive a few hours after you, but Eurostar only guarantees that it will arrive within 24 hours after check-in, so at worst you could have to wait up to a day to retrieve your bicycle.

On most TGV services you will have to transport your bicycle in a bike bag no larger than 120 × 90cm, although a few TGV services now have a luggage van in which bikes can be transported without dismantling, for example on the Paris to Marseilles route. This service cost €10 per bike per journey in 2008. It may be that in the future this facility will be extended to other TGV routes – check the current situation and regulations on www.velo.sncf.com.

The Express Bike Bus is a company offering coach transport from England with bicycles towed in custom-built trailers. There are various pick-up points in England, including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Dover. Their ‘Mediterranean Route’ service includes a drop-off near Montpellier. Services operate from early May to late September, with varying weekly/fortnightly departures and returns (see ssss1, Useful Contacts).