29er (bicycle) used were forks designed for trekking bikes or hybrids. For many years, 29" frames and bikes were usually only available from small little-known manufactures like Niner Bikes. Surly Bikes introduced their 29" frameset, the Karate Monkey, in 2002. Gary Fisher Bicycles, a division of Trek Bicycles, became the first of the major manufactures to offer a line of 29" bikes. Their lines never sold well until the introduction of single-speed 29" bike the Rig, in 2004. Today, most bicycle manufacturers in the US market offer at least one 29" bicycle or frame. Even companies that openly dismissed 29" as a
Giant from the Unknown to kill the giant Vargas by causing him to fall from a bridge to his death down a raging waterfall. American film director, producer, actor, and editor Joe Dante described this film on his webseries "Trailers from Hell" as: "The ads for "Giant' quote 'It came from another world' and today it really does, the vanished world of dull black-and-white features that I for one really miss". "Giant from the Unknown" was first released on DVD October 24, 2000. On March 2, 2012, the film was re-relesed on DVD by Image Entertainment. Giant from the Unknown Giant from the Unknown