DAKER DOGGEDNESS
Andrew Houlihan’s got a hell of a lot of healing to do and not much time to do it. At the end of July, the 52-year-old Albury local and all-round good bloke crashed his heavily customised KTM 890 R Rally while training. Cresting a rise at an estimated 160km/h, he hit not one, but two kangaroos, and snapped his bike in half. As well as four broken ribs and broken bones in his hand, he broke his neck, fractured an eye socket and punctured a lung which then collapsed.
At a time when most other 50-something year olds would call time on an international racing career, this bloke used his time in hospital to start planning a one-off custom build he’s calling a KTM 890 Dakar R. And Dakar 2022 is less than 100 days away.
Houlihan didn’t start riding bikes until later in life. At 33 years old, he and his wife
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