The easiest way is to not visit such countries. Second easiest is to always have local friends / riding buddies.
If neither are an option, being extremely friendly and talking in their "values" helps a lot. For example, in plenty of corrupt places the concept of family is very important, so you can talk about visiting some cousin of yours.
Whenever they ask for a bribe or whatever, simply assume they're offering you something instead, and very enthusiastically thank them for the offer but decline. Then go talk on and on about the nature, your trip, your interactions with locals, how you tried some dishes and loved them and so on.
Doesn't work always, but it's both great fun to do, and it has a really nice success rate.
Last edited by Alan31; 29 Mar 2017 at 19:06.
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