Brendan Monagle and his mates hit the 2018 WR250R Rally. It meant a ride from Melbourne in Victoria to north of Sydney in NSW.
he clock ticked over to 5.00am as myself, Nick White and Tom Bennetts fired up our steel horses and embarked into the morning darkness for the first leg of the journey.
Coming from our respective homes around Melbourne’s suburbs, we convened to fuel up, smash a latte, a bacon-and-egg McMuffin and wait for Nick to stop dilly-dallying before we began our day of scenic dirt roads. We were headed for the WR250R Rally at Cessnock, northwest of Sydney. Over three days we aimed to avoid the highways at all cost, opting for the dirt and scenery of the open country.