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I regarded a removal battery as a required feature when specifying my e-bike. The reasons is that I do cycling-touring holidays, usually staying in hotels, so at the end of the day the bike goes into the hotel's bike garage and the battery comes into my room to be charged up. I wouldn't count on the...

Thanks everyone for your very helpful advice. Nobody mentioned any problems with buses being cancelled or refusing booked bicycles, so that made me feel more positive, not like Flixbus . So, I've booked. I don't want to leave it until the last minute just in case the 4 bike spaces all get booked. We...

Yes, Giro Terraduro HV (High Volume) work for me.

I'm interested to hear from cyclists who have used ALSA buses in Spain in recent times. The booking process seems quite transparent and simple - there are four bike places per bus, and if they are not all booked, then you can add one to your bus ticket for €10. According to https://www.alsa.com/en/w...

Just completed my first tour on recently-acquired Bianchi Impulso e-Road. It has a touring-bike setup with drop bars and fixings for mudguards and rear rack. The battery is detachable, so you can take it into your hotel room for overnight charging. This was band-b touring - carrying everything on th...

I was asked in a PM for more details of non-flying transport, so I'm responding here in case it helps anyone else. Since a touring bike and luggage is usually quite heavy, I try to avoid transport that requires me to take the bike apart and carry it, and am prepared to accept a slower journey to ach...

Just got back from doing this. We started cycling in Passau, thence to Salzburg and on to the Alpe Adria, with a side trip to Lake Bled and Lake Bohinj. After reaching Grado, we went on to Trieste and Ljubljana, and took in some of the Drau cycle route back to Villach. We pre-booked hotels, no compa...

My old Edge 605 didn't do turn by turn FWIW, that's not quite true. The 605 / 705s supported an extended format that Garmin called GPXX, which did exactly that - the Edge used it to give you satnav-style turn-by-turn directions on a pre-planned route. However Garmin chose not to continue it into la...

Thanks Cyril Haearn, that is indeed good news. In recent times cyclists in Germany have only had the option to use slower regional trains, but the new ICE 4 rolling stock has accommodation for eight bicycles as standard. Apparently five of these have now entered service on the lines between Hamburg ...

Assuming you're talking about the TGV Lyria train services from Paris to various destinations in Switzerland, then as of December 2017 they no longer accept fully-assembled bicycles. You can use their services, but you have to carry your bike in a bag max 120 x 90cm.

The TGV Lyria services between Paris and Switzerland have for a while been key routes for those of us who want to travel with a fully-assembled bicycle. Sadly, no more. Since the December timetable change this year, when TGV Lyria went over to a three-class system, they only take bikes in bags, max ...

Meanwhile, here's a helpful summary of the booking engines used by the different TOCs: http://saveecrewards.co.uk/cycling/bike-reservation-online.

Until the end of 2016, the City Night Line is still running. This takes you directly from Amsterdam to Zurich overnight. Bicycles are carried fully assembled in a dedicated part of the train, and you can also book cabins or couchettes. See bahn.de for info, though you can't make bike bookings online.

We took the bikes from Zurich to Andermatt a few weeks ago, which is similar to your journey from Basel. As you have discovered, most trains within Switzerland carry bicycles without reservations, in designated bike spaces, which are often ceiling hooks. Look for the bicycle symbol, in white paint o...

Reporting back as promised, the unreserved boat train was eight carriages long, and fairly empty apart from a load of commuters who got on at Stratford and off at Chelmsford. There are flip-up seats where bikes can go.We got to Liverpool Street in good time, so there would be no problem getting bike...