They do not tie the bike down.
Is that on the sidestand with the front wheel against a bulkhead? Makes good sense! Thanks for the tip- I am assuming then that they don't tie down like the ferry?
Thinking too much.
Looking on a computer too much.
Grab a coffee, browse a map, make some notes.
Get on bike, go for a ride.
As Tarka says, you are trying too hard.
Post #5 shows that it’s definitely only 500 miles A to B * Calais to Zurich and the same back. Thereafter it’s only simple sums and a bit of imagination. Post #2 shows how Kurviger (and other similar tools) will show you the way.
* As a basic guide, Shrewsbury to Glasgow direct is a little under 300. You'd know how to do that, I’d guess? Three hundred miles (give or take) is no different because you cross the Channel, trust me. You don’t suddenly change and the distance doesn’t suddenly alter. Just do what you’d do in the UK, you’ll be fine. I promise.
Park your bike, in gear, with the sidestand to the front of the train. They always want you to park the other way but I've help prevent a couple of bikes falling over because the train can brake harder than it can accelerate. Ignore their direction and explain to them why.
If it did fall over, and you haven't parked as instructed, I very much doubt you'd get any joy* out of Eurotunnel in any claim for damage.
That said, in 20-odd years of operation and for the last 12 being sort of professionally involved with Eurotunnel (with many hundreds of crossing myself and colleagues with thousands), I've never heard of bikes falling over. A couple of apocryphal incidents were bikers have dropped their bikes as they parked or departed, but nothing other than that in the course of the crossing. That's not to say it hasn't happened, of course.
*Judging by the events of the last few days, Eurotunnel are not really in the "joy" business!
Eurotunnel 0: Parador car parks 1
Three hundred miles (give or take) is no different because you cross the Channel, trust me. You don’t suddenly change and the distance doesn’t suddenly alter. Just do what you’d do in the UK, you’ll be fine. I promise.
Head south to Portsmouth, take one of the 11pm ferries to Le HARVE, sleep on the ferry, seat or cabin, set off south at 8.00 french time and take a route skirting Paris to the North.
Avoids M6, M25 and Dover, great route via the borders south to Portsmouth.
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