Originally Posted by
madpogue
A shop that's been around long enough would have the info from when the bikes were on the market. You know, back when service enterprises actually bought and shelved and read paper manuals. Not everything that's ever been printed is online.
In, say, 1992, would you have trusted your car to a body shop that didn't have the specs for the unibody alignment? Would you have trusted your bike to a shop that didn't have the equivalent? There were obviously shops that did, and they didn't all get pushed out by palaces of black carbon and GU. The OP needs to find such a shop.
This isn't some obscure rarity. It's a Giant Iguana. The Ford Taurus of the MTB world in its day.
Thought we were talking about framebuilders, not bike shops. Now you have to hope that the bike shop has mechanics on hand competent enough to properly measure a frame
and hope that the shop kept these paper manuals. Providing, of course, that they were a Giant dealer back when these were new. And that these geometry manuals were actually provided by Giant.
The possibility of all this lining up is
so slim that I really don't think it's a feasible option. But since this is nothing more than a guess, I'm going to try something - I'm going to reach out to both local Giant dealers (Cycle World and Mack Cycle) to see what their replies are. I know the staff at both pretty well, so I know they'll make the effort rather than feed me a canned salesman's reply.
TBH, I've never seen or heard of the Giant Iguana until now. In my region, Trek MultiTracks and the Jamis Boss Cruiser reign supreme for anyone considering a bike similar to the Iguana. Bought by recreational bicycle riders who'd buy another if they smashed up the first, mostly because that's what LBSs tend to do - mock your crashed bicycle and point out how much better the new one is on the floor.
-Kurt