Hello Englishman in Bulgaria here.

Guess am a bit late with this post as have made others on the site anyway I do not have a VFR but am interested in the idea of having one at the moment. I say that because I have not even seen one in real life as yet that I know of never mind touching or sitting on one and until that happens cannot be sure if a VFR suits me or not.

Last Saturday rode my Triumph 450km to go and look at a 6th Gen VFR only to be told when I got there that it was gone, sold, yet still listed on the sales site was rather peeved to say the least. So the last week has been spent browsing the listing sites here and sending enquiries via the email systems on those sites calling by phone. Phone is awkward as I do not speak Bulgarian and finding someone at the dealers who can speak some English and who is willing to speak in English is proving more problematic than one would think. The e-mails were in Bulgarian used Google Translate for that yet not had a single response. Do these people want to sell or not? Have tried sending SMS (text) same result not a single response.

As many listed for sale are over 3 hours travel time away have located an area that has four dealers and importers of used bikes that have seven VFR's listed between them am thinking of driving down and spending a couple of days visiting the dealers and see whet the bikes are like and what sort of deal can get.

Plezier

 

Well, I bet the beer is cheap!

All joking aside, I hope you find the bike you're looking for. Fortunately, it's hard to find a bad VFR (especially if you enjoy working on the charging system!)

Ciao,

JZH

 

Sorry have no idea about beer prices, I could check for you, as have never drunk beer don't like the stuff I do however like Cider proper Cider that is not that fashionable stuff (K, White Lightening) that tastes like acid Woodpecker is nice and actually has flavour they have a cider here called "Thief of Apples" which is good although I do not drink often but did have a couple of cans recently they were the first ones in about 8 months I bought them last year but then due to the medications they put me on after the accident could not drink. Am still on a couple of tablets now but not like before these are the help with the joints and blood flow. Oh and in Bulgaria the blood alcohol level is ZERO random vehicle checks are common they set up roadside checks and check insurance, test in date, ID card and licence and sometime pull out the breatherliser.

The cost of living here was mainly much lower than in the UK however adoption of the Euro has taken care of most of that prices had sky rocketed out Electric bills have doubled it seems that the company has basically swapped the currency symbol for the Lev to the Euro and kept the figure the same as as there is two lev (1.9) to the Euro prices have doubled it's so bad the Government is talking of dropping out o the Euro and going back the the Lev.

As for the bikes well it's not like am without as have the Triumph Trophy 900 though I do find it rather top heavy and this has caused me to drop it on it's side twice when stationary when the surface had loose stuff and my left foot slid out and the bike lent over too far for me to get it back or keep it upright. Was not allowed to ride for over six months on surgeons instructions due to see him again next month for a follow up so see how the bone is healing advancing age it seems slows the healing process and putting a pin through the bone also slows the healing so he says. Truth is that until the other month I could not handle the weight of the Triumph recovery is proving much slower than I would like.

So in February I acquired a 98 Honda Shadow VT600 which is a lot lighter and lower meaning that I could handle it much easier have done a couple of thousand Km on it but right now it's partly stripped down as it started running really badly developed an air leak at the intake manifold that new O'Rings did not cure yesterday took it off to carefully examine it and it seems it has been repaired in the past and the repair has not got pin holes and what looks like a crack in the casting bought a replacement off ebay from Poland will take a couple of weeks to get here and hopefully that will fix the issue as a local guy has been hassling me to sell it to him.



Before it started messing about and running badly.

One thing about Bulgaria and bikes is that they are exempt from road tax (Vignette) and only need testing every two years rather than annually like cars. Thee is a vehicle tax you pay annually you pay this when you pay the property taxes for any vehicle registered to your address and registered vehicles MUST be insured.

Plezier