Belt-driven bicycle with a compact design that, like STRiDA, featured a belt drive. Other folding-bike manufacturers that have implemented a belt drive include U.S. company Bike Friday and Netherlands-based Bernds. In 2007, Gates Corporation developed a high-modulus synchronous belt and sprocket system called the Carbon Drive System. The belt’s pitch allowed for lower tension requirements to help prevent skipping. Lightweight, patent-pending sprockets have mud ports, openings under each tooth, which work to slough off debris. In 2009, an increasing number of bicycle companies, including Trek and "f"8 Cycles, offered belt-driven bicycles. While builders initially focused on single-speeds and internal hubs, in early
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