Problem With My Motorcycle | Bulgaria | [E23]

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Jun 12, 2026
Welcome to my exciting solo Motorcycle Journey from Sweden to Nepal! In todays episode I discover some issues with Sarek my Motorcycle. I wild camped on this incredible beach and a massive luxury resort. So the question is, can I make it to the mechanic before it's to late? “Sweden2Nepal” A motorcycle journey I've dreamed of since 5 years back has finally started. I quit my job to pursue one of my biggest dreams, to travel alone across the world with a motorcycle and an open mind as a solo female. Motorcycle: Honda Transalp 650, year 2005.
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Good morning all my beautiful people! Another day, another opportunity. Yeah, it's amazing here.
I decided that I want to stay next to the beach for a couple more days.
I feel like, yeah, this is my spot now. I want to be next to the sea, so I'm gonna continue
a little bit closer to the Turkish border. I won't cross yet, but I want to stay here in
Bulgaria for just a couple of more days to enjoy this place. One of the reasons why I want to
stay here in Bulgaria for a little bit more is because I have a lot of data
to use, and I heard that in Turkey it costs a lot for internet, and I would do a lot of wild
camping there I think, so I said to myself, why not just sit here and wild camp and use all the data I have.
Yeah, and because I don't really know where exactly in Turkey I will go, I have many options, so I need
to sit down and decide a little bit before I just head out somewhere. Okay, let the journey continue!
Bye bye kitty cats! Bye bud, the barking dog up there didn't like my camping or my sounds.
Yeah, I stayed right there in that place, and the owner will come and pick up the garbage and
stuff and close the camping again, because they used to open it for me. So one other thing I need
to do is to stop in the city, Burgas, a couple of days ago. I need to fix that now, close the gate there.
So Burgas chain lube, I saw a motorcycle place there, I need to probably buy that.
So I'm gonna go there and ask them and see what they say, and then I need these,
I call it these straps, these bungee straps, because they are breaking. I used to have a tiny
tiny part left of it, so I think next time I'll put it on, it's gonna break. Hi Ravda, nice to meet you!
I mean, everywhere here is this big hotel complex everywhere. It's like a Disneyland, as I said, you have
water slides, you have castles you stay in, all-inclusive castles, I guess.
Massive. It's so empty now, all the apartments are emptied, they've emptied all the pools and
it's more or less a ghost town. Yay, I find some chain lube at the pit stop shop here in Burgas.
Super kind guy who helped me there, highly recommend it to come here if you need any help with your bike.
Yeah, I have a chain lube now, so I'm pretty good and happy to have it. I need to stop at a
fuel station to put it on, there's a lot of traffic there. Yes, super kind guy in the shop,
at the pit stop, stopped to sell a cup of coffee and he was looking for air filter as well, so I will see if I
get it and get it delivered tomorrow. It depends what I decide to do. Yeah, I got my straps for my
bag now, I have two extra, so I will put them on when I reach my camping spot. I forgot that I
should probably have some lunch. Yeah, I have some pasta. I just want some protein like chickpeas
or beans or anything. Let me see if they have it here. Why not a lunch at the beach? That sounds
pretty fancy. Wow, oh wow, a palace, an empty palace.
It's massive. This is mass tourism, seasonal mass tourism. Wow, it is so dead here, oi oi oi.
W sees us, but I can't see if they're open or not.
There is a door there, it looks closed, so we try. It's blocked, I can't go there.
That's okay. You know, I used to work in hotels a lot in my life. We can work in
four different hotels.
It's so interesting to see different kind of hotels when you grow up and work,
and especially resorts there. I've never been in a good area. This place, what is it?
It's like the king's castle or something.
So this is without the show, and it's usually like this in the morning
with all the bikes they have, I think. I decided to camp outside of this massive hotel, which is
closed. So I will sleep here in this place outside this big massive hotel. And tomorrow I will go to
the mechanic and see what they say. Good morning all my beautiful people. Another day, another
opportunities. I have a wasp here that wants to hang out with me. Yes, so you know I have a problem
with the motorcycle. It's the sound, it's under the seat, I can't really tell where it comes from.
It does three clicks and then it's good. But recently I had problems to starter, so I don't
know if it's the spark plug, or fuel pump that need to be cleaned, or misfire, I don't know.
But I start her in the morning today and she worked fine, no problem. She started, she runs good, so
I decided to go to Turkey. It is just maybe one hour the border, so I will go there and I will
find a mechanic there, because in here in Burgas it's really hard to find someone that can help you
now. So I will go to Turkey, either to the border and see if the mechanic there. I just go straight
to Istanbul, it's not that far, I think it's 300 kilometers or something like that. So I can just do
that in one day and then I do the whole thing. I need to change the tires, I need to do the 3000
miles service, I need to fix her for the Middle East and everything. So I'll be staying there for
for a while, I think. Let the journey continue. So I'm packing up my tent, mattress there,
pillow there, but I think I will go for a walk on the beach as well. Go on the beach and pick
some garbage. There's a lot of garbage on the beach, so why not do that? I know it's not much, but
it is something in me. I'm gonna try to top it up and see if I can find another one as well.
But yeah, let's go throw this. 90% is plastic. Oh, hello! I would like to have an orange juice
and please a sandwich. I'm really, really hungry. Yes, that orange juice. Perfect, thank you so much.
I wish.
Empty. Empty bar. I will make my own sandwich. I can do that too. Salami and cheese. Yummy.
So now she runs a problem at all. It's like always in the morning she's hard to start without the
because it's cold I guess. It's an old motorcycle.
Your weight on it?
If the bike was better than you thought and you struggle the first few kilometers when it's
warming up, that means the sensor is going. The sensor then it's like a thermostat.
Tell the engine if it's warm or if it's cold.
But if you really want to feel some warm between your legs, get on the Harley.
Okay, have a nice trip. What's your name? Loris. Loris, nice to meet you. Thank you so much. And yours?
Cristina. Cristina. Okay, Cristina. Enjoy the rest of your trip. Are you going for a walk? Yeah,
All right, let's continue. I think I need to clean the carburetor. Spark plugs, new spark plugs.
Have a little peek here and organize myself for the border. I have 20 minutes left, so I thought
why not stop here next to a abandoned place, which I love, outside the town and
do a little stop. So I'm gonna cross the border and it's gonna be a long, long day I think.
I can see now that it's already in the map that it's traffic jam there, so yeah, I'm prepared.
Let's go to Turkey. So we're gonna be here for a little bit, I guess.
Perhaps an hour, maybe?
