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FOCUS PSB Adventure Bikes www.PowersportsBusiness.com Powersports Business • August 17, 2015 • 21 Adventure Rider forums (advrider.com) to pro- mote the new Rally Raid parts. "The Adventure Rider forum has been pretty instrumental in generating interest and excitement around the project," Cecil reported. "In that forum, there is a vendor thread, and Rally Raid Products has essentially been shar- ing with that community of enthusiasts the development process for these parts. As they've been building parts and have been testing them, they've been posting up photos, and the last time I looked, that thread had something like 80 pages, and there was a lot of interest from all over in this project." Giant Loop also has been posting news about importing the lineup on the Adventure Rider vendor thread, as well as posting on other forums and on social media. "We're pretty much building this thing in the grassroots fashion that we've always used as our approach here at Giant Loop," Cecil explained. PUT TO THE TEST As soon as Giant Loop built its first Rally Raid- equipped Honda CB500X, the parts were immediately put to the test. Morgan assisted in the build and then set off on a 12,000-plus- mile, 50-day trip around the U.S. "She flew over from the U.K. and came to our shop here in Bend and got the very first pre-production sets of parts from Rally Raid. She actually helped us get the bike built, and she jumped on it and took off from there," Cecil said. Morgan first rode from Bend, Ore., to Flag- staff, Ariz., for the May 15-17 Overland Expo West, where Giant Loop officially announced that it would be importing Rally Raid's CB500 See Giant Loop, Page 23 "We're pretty much building this thing in the grassroots fashion that we've always used as our approach here at Giant Loop." Harold Olaf Cecil, co-founder, Giant Loop Jenny Morgan put the new Rally Raid Products for the Honda CB500 line to the test in a ride that included a trip through Moab, Utah.