circa 1983 Vintage Terry Step Through Road Bike
This is truly a basement-bred Terry bike. The decals date the bike back to my basement days when I first started building bikes. The cut vinyl Terry decals were designed by a co-worker of mine at Xerox. This is the first (and only) step through frame I ever built, although I have designed many since then. The owner supplied all of the components and I built the frame to her specs, which included chrome-plated fork blades and rear stays. The tricky part was figuring out where to find “lugs” in the crazy angles needed on a step through. TIG may have been around then, but I wasn’t interested in using it. I ended up with a combination of “cut and pasted” lugs and fillet brazing.
The original owner’s choice of components is quite eclectic as you can see from the listing below.
The current owner assures me the bike is road-worthy and anxious to get out on the road again. It has recently been professionally serviced and is ready to ride.
Details and photographs:
Geometry
- 19” seat tube measured from the center of the bottom bracket to top of the seat lug
- 26″ step through height
- 18” effective top tube length
- 17” chain stay
- 120 mm rear triangle spacing
Construction
- Reynolds 531 tubing
- Henry James investment cast lugs, bb shell, fork crown and bottom bracket
- full braze-ons for cables, bottle cages, pump, and front and rear racks
- Made in Penfield, NY
Components
- TA triple crank; 45/40/25; chainrings 165 mm arms
- Super Champion rims on Phil Wood hubs
- Shimano 600 front and rear derailleurs
- SR stem
- Alloy riser handlebar
- Shimano brake levers
- SunTour accushift thumb shift levers
- Shimano 5 speed freewheel 14/18/20/24/28 teeth
- Weinmann 610 center pull brakes
- SR – SP – 150 pedals with Christophe toeclips
- Campagnolo headset
- 700c rear wheel/24″ front wheel (ISO 540/541; also referred to as 600A)

One of a kind, custom-built Terry ladies bicycle.

Flat bar with thumb shifters. Chrome-plated fork blades.

TA triple crank (25x40x45).

Campagnolo headset.

5-speed freewheel (28, 24, 20, 18, 14); Phil Wood hubs.

Shimano 600 rear derailleur.

Super Champion rims.

Weinmann center-pull brakes.

View from the front.

Chrome-plated rear stays.