Trek Bicycle Corporation signed a long-term licensing agreement with Greg LeMond, the 3-time Tour de France champion and the first American to win the Tour—to design, build, and distribute LeMond Racing Cycles. 1995 was also the year Trek opened a state-of-the-art assembly facility in Whitewater, Wisconsin, leaving the Waterloo location free to focus solely on frame production. In 1997, Trek helped sign former world road race champion (1993) Lance Armstrong to the Trek-sponsored United States Postal Service Pro Cycling Team. Armstrong won his first Tour de France in 1999 aboard a Trek 5500, becoming the first American to win the Tour on an
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