Useful tips for a bike trip

8. The first thing that you need to do when you decide to go out and travel is to defeat your fear about travelling alone in the world. But you are never alone because people will be interested in you since you are a globetrotter and they will spend time with you. That's why you should go outside and travel on your bike.

9. Language: If you don't speak the language of the country to which you want to travel, don't
 hesitate. You'll see that, no matter how, you can communicate with others through gestures or
 acial expression. Moreover, the people are very courteous, especially in Latin America.

10. People ask me whether I got ill during my journeys. The answer is no because when you're
outside your body gets resistant (maybe because hormones like endorphine are released). Once I
was ill of  diarrhea, but you can avoid this when you take care of what you eat - the most
important issue is what kind of water you drink.

11. Empathy and sympathy are the keys with which you can open all "doors"; they help you to
overcome all obstacles.

Useful tips for a bike trip

5.  To decorate your bike, with flags from countries that you already or will cross, can be really
     useful, because people  begin to pay attention, and on that way people get garrulous and
     cooperative.

6.  If you reached a city, you already have a place where to stay and just want to drive with
     your bike through it, take the big bag with you that makes you recognizable as a
     Globetrotter - it awakes interest.

7.  If you are travelling through restless countries, make sure to regularly keep in touch with
     the local  police, they could for example warn you in case you´re crossing a dangerous
     section. (My own  kidnapping) + If you are travelling through Middel or South America,
     try to just drive between 8.00 am and 6.00 pm (just at daylight) - it is just way safer

Useful tips for a bike trip

Up to today I already managed to drive with my bike on 5 different tours through 10 countries and 2 continets, covering approximately 10200 Kilometers. On those trips I have made many nice but also bad experiences, that could have been easily avoided. Because of that I want to give you some tips for your bike trip.

1. If it´s your first international trip, please just don´t worry too much about all those things
    that maybe could go wrong. Because I can tell you, things probably will go wrong, but don´t
    let your worries ruin your anticipation.

2. You´ll maybe feel, like you have forgotten to plan or to organize something, but you can be
    sure, many problems and unorganized parts of you trip, will solve itself on the asphalt.

3. Don´t take too much unnecessary things with you, the bare essentials are definitely enough:
    - 2 bags (each one 40 liters) for the carrier
    - 1 small bag for the steering-wheel
       * one-men tent
       * one pair of normal street shoes
       * replacement sportswear + rain jacket

       * sports bottles

       * smartphone
       * sewing kit 

       * bike pump

       * sleeping mat
       * camping stove

4. You should plan your trip in a way, that you first reach a mountain phase up to the third
    day. Beacause at my first trip ( Jakobsweg), I made the mistake that I already drove up the
    pyrenees at the first day, and it was that horrible, that after I´ve crossed them, I just
    wanted to take the next airplane and get back home.

      
                                                      Other tips will follow!