FIM Rally 1986 - Budapest - Revisted Part 1
I was looking through a box of stuff and came across the paperwork for the first FIM Rally we ever went on. It was 1986. I was a bit fed up at work and Audrey, my partner at the time, was a lecturer at a college in North London, she had time off of course for the summer. So fully expecting to come back and easily find a job, I quit. We were full members of the British Motorcyclist Federation (BMF) and also affiliated members through the Suzuki Owners Club. Audrey was also a member of the Women's International Motorcycle Association (WIMA) and affiliated there too! These memberships allow access to the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) and all the events it puts on from racing to touring categories. The outward journey would take us through Western Europe and into Austria. Out first port of call was to visit my long term friend, Ivan Benda, in his home in Bohunice , a suburb of Brno in what was still Czechoslovakia then. We stayed in...