Balkan, the motorcycle from Bulgaria

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Balkan, the motorcycle from Bulgaria. Bulgarian yogurt, that we know. But Bulgarian motorcycles? Yet they have been there. In any case 'a kind of'. Because the 'Balkans, engines were actually 1 on 1 clones of DKWs and Jawas.

Under the enlightened communist system, the import and trade of cars and motorcycles was prohibited between 1944 and 1955. To solve that problem within the borders, they joined the former Bulgarian aircraft factory DSF in 1956 (Държавна самолетна фабрика / ДСФ) motorcycles (na) to make.

The first result was an almost 100% DKW RT 250 replica that was presented at the 17th International Sample Fair in Plovdiv in 1956.

The next good example was taken from Jawa. The production of Balkans stopped in 1975. The motorcycles were made in the same 'Factory 14' as where various cars were built, whether legally or not.

In 1966, however, a very official license contract was concluded with FIAT. That happened until 1971 under the name Pirin. Then Moskvichen were made.

 

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