How Strict is Sizing of Folding Bikes on Peak Hour Trains?

[AlexHuggs]

I'm in Perth. Does anyone have any experience with how strict they are about the size of folding bikes on buses and peak hour trains? (Trains are more the issue.) A few bikes I've looked at are a a few centimetres longer along one axis than the Transperth website stipulates. They tend to be much shorter on the other dimensions.

Been several years since I posted. I changed jobs and stopped riding. A train line is opening up near me and I'm considering taking public transport to the city (or just short of it) and cycling into work from there.

[Thoglette]

Short answer : put it in a bag and then it’s no longer a bicycle, it’s luggage.

Having said that, there are days when it’s physically hard to get onto the train at rush hour (but I’m only two stops from Perth ).

Outside the peak period no one cares a hoot.

It is nice that TP is allowing folders during peak hours.

P.s. if you are going to bring a folder on board sans bag wax your chain. Please don’t oil it!!!

[AlexHuggs]

Thanks. Which raises the point - I thought they had to be in a bag anyway. Which kind of makes the rule redundant, doesn't it?

Short answer : put it in a bag and then it’s no longer a bicycle, it’s luggage.

Having said that, there are days when it’s physically hard to get onto the train at rush hour (but I’m only two stops from Perth ).

Outside the peak period no one cares a hoot.

It is nice that TP is allowing folders during peak hours.

P.s. if you are going to bring a folder on board sans bag wax your chain. Please don’t oil it!!!