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* You get a lot of attention if you are running on your bike with all the luggage.
* You can enjoy beautiful parts of your trip on a slow pace with your bike and skip bad or hard ones while hitchhiking.
* You have a really interesting and visible story (a bicycle). [[User:taborda]] found out that people are much more friendly and helpful as they easily believe you when they see the bike and bags
=== Cons ===
* It's harder to find someone who has room for you and your bike. You might consider getting yourself a fold-up bike, which uses significantly less space. (or to use a small bike that easily can take the wheels out and pack it in a big plastic).
* You need good bags which should be easy to remove from the bike.
* It's not that obvious for the driver that you want a ride.(it makes it easy to have the bike in a big bag - that will also help on not making cars dirty with chain oil)
* In countries with tiny cars and few trucks its really hard.
=== Tips to make hitchbiking easier ===
* Pack your bike (with a small plastic tarp and some rope i could pack my hole bike) to avoid oil stains in cars.
* Use a small bike that can take the wheels easy, can be useful to strip it out of not needed items (like mudguards) to make packing smaller and easier
* Try to ask car drivers for a hitch, not only vans and trucks, people tend to be really helpful with cyclists, and you will find out a bike can fit in many cars (on the back sit). ([[User:taborda]] hitchbiking from amsterdam to portugal just got one hich offer where the bike actually didn't fit, on all others it was possible to fit the bike - mostly in "normal" cars)
== Countries ==
[[User:guaka|guaka]]<small><sup>[http://guaka.org site], [[User talk:guaka|wikitalk]]</sup></small> can confirm it's very easy in [[Ecuador]]. Hitching with 2 people and 2 bikes was very easy.
[[User:taborda|taborda]] can confirm hitchiking with a bike in europe (holand, belgium, france, spain and portugal - July/August 2011) was not that hard (actually as easy as without a bike - or even easier)
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