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→Hitchhiking with a foldable bike
The advantage of fixed gear bikes is it's lack of maintenance required. When you have a rear derailleur you may spend more time fixing you shifters and wires than actually hitchhiking.
<!-- [[File:Georgebike.jpg|300px|thumb|right|21-speed Pocket Sport]] --> Tiny folding bikes [http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/06/worlds_smallest.php like this one] make BikeHitching much easier. For longer trips, you could consider a real touring bike that folds up into a suitcase or a car trunk, like this 21-speed Pocket Sport from Bike Friday (picture). If you fold your bike, drivers won't even notice you have more than just big a backpack and then HitchBiking works just like normal hitchhiking.
== Hitchhiking with another kind of bycicle ==
To remove a bycicle you typically need a size 15 wrench, or a size 15 to remove the wheel bolts. An l-shaped angled wrench of the same size can also do the job.
If you have a regular bycicle, then you can remove either one, or both wheels.
Multiple speed bycicles have a back wheel that is really complicated to remove.
Dutch bycicles (those with an "open frame") are rather cumbersome, to carry, for those removing both wheels can be really complicated, the first one is somewhat hard to remove but not that much, but be careful and take pictures or you may not be able to set again the front brake (fortunately, the rear brake is the most powerful).
Fixies are really simple, and all you need is to use a classic wrench.
If there is very few space you may remove the handlebar, there are two common types of handle bars, one comes of with an allen wrench (L-shape hexagonal ones), the other has typically two caps clinged over the handlebar.
== Tips to make hitchbiking easier ==
