Giant Bicycles Giant Bicycles Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (commonly known as Giant) is a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer that is recognized as the world's largest bicycle manufacturer. Giant has manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, the Netherlands, and China. Giant was established in 1972 in Dajia, Taichung County (now part of Taichung City), by King Liu and several friends. A major breakthrough came in 1977 when Giant’s chief executive, Tony Lo, negotiated a deal with Schwinn to begin manufacturing bikes as an OEM, manufacturing bicycles to be sold exclusively under other brand names as a private label. As bike sales increased in the U.S., and
Extreme Risk (Star Trek: Voyager) Extreme Risk (Star Trek: Voyager) "Extreme Risk" is the 97th episode of the science fiction television series "", the third episode of the . A probe launched by the Federation starship "Voyager" is stuck in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet; because of the value of the resources it has collected, the crew attempts to come up with solutions to recover the probe. Lt. Tom Paris presents the designs for a specialized shuttlecraft, the "Delta Flyer", that he has been designing over the past few months that would be able to withstand the gas giant's atmosphere. The rest of