Travel with recumbent bicycles on trains

On our trips we collected quite some practice on traveling with two recumbent bicycles on trains. It was never a problem, even though in several situations we were happy to be two of us to help with narrow doors and couloirs.

From what we have seen, the places are made for bicycles up to two meters long. A short-base recumbent usually being shorter, there have been no problem on fitting them, except the Azub Six on the Swiss IC5 titling trains.

On this post we will be collecting the experience on different types of mainly long-distance trains.

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De bicicleta da Régua a Chaves pela Linha do Corgo

De bicicleta entre a Régua, Vila Real e Chaves (e possível continuação a Verín em Espanha) é uma ciclovia ou ecovia projectada há muito, sempre pela antiga linha de comboio do Corgo. Para Sul, esta ecopista poderia também ser alongada até Lamego.

Na realidade, em Setembro de 2020, é um trilho de aventura que na maior parte se pode efectuar sem problemas a pé. De bicicleta com alforges, só parcialmente o é de forma confortável.

Neste artigo, originalmente escrito em Português, vamos tentar mostrar o estado das coisas tal como vimos e pedalámos nas nossas últimas férias de bicicleta.

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Cycling across the Alps to San Marino and Venice

Part 1: The change of plans

October 2019. Our plan is to ride from Bern to Berlin, via Munich and Prague. We have never been to Czech Republic and always wanted to ride in East Germany. Everything is organized: we will pick up the keys of the Munich apartment in Winterthur, we have let our Czech friend know we are going to visit her country…

The weather forecast in this beginning of Autumn is not nice: rain and cold. And this at least during the whole next week. Not like the “One Week, Four Countries” tour we did in October 2017.

We packed all our house into six panniers: wardrobe, bed (mattress and blanket), kitchen and repair workshop. The house goes in a separate bag above the panniers. Finally, we have confirmed that the campsite for the first night is still open.

We are on October 4^th 2019, 9 o’clock in the morning when we take a last look at the weather forecast and it really doesn’t look nice. The weather is much better south of the Alps. And if we went there instead?

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Where did we sleep for one year?

We left home cycling on the 20 june 2016 and arrived back on the 21 june 2017, that is 366 days. We counted 200 days of them as cycling days and the remaining we spent with our families (most of it), friends and resting.

13’000 km, the last milestone

One year, 13’000 km and almost home. We are just next to Annecy lake, it’s June 16th, when we pass the last milestone of our trip. But to end with a nice view we will still climb the Jura mountains. Let’s just go up to a 1’500 m high peak before arrive to Geneva. Less than 160 km to our door.