Top dollar!
When ADB released footage of me testing Dakar competitor Andrew Houlihan’s pristine KTM 450 Rally Replica, I expected people to ask what it was like to ride. Heck, after Dakar introduced the 450cc limit in 2011, Kato won the motorcycle division nine times in a row before being beaten by Ricky Brabec’s Honda this year.
No one on the internet cared about how good it was. All the traffic was about the $55,995 price. How could it cost so much? Was it really worth it? Why would you buy one when you could turn a 450EXC-F into a rally bike for half the money? COVID’s done funny things to people’s heads!
Why $56K? Well if you start adding up the standard parts: WP Xact Pro 48mm Cone Valve fork, WP Xact Pro shock, full Akrapovic exhaust system, 33 litres of
