N+1= Terry Classic
 

Just got this Terry Classic off Craigslist. It had been reduced over the past few weeks from $300. I just wanted it to have a good home, but there is also the hope that if I find the right bicycle my wife will consent to ride with me. Not able to identify the year on Bikepedia, I'm guessing it's about a '94 frankenbike. Campy Olympus? shifters, Campy derailers, cassette, and hubs. Shimano crankset and brakes. No tubing sticker. $125 dollars including Cannondale panniers, frame pumps, and a tool kit.

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I would bet the Shimano 600 stuff is probably original, but not the Campy. I bought a 1997 Classic for Mrs. Road Fan (matches the BikePedia listing), and it was Tigged, made of Columbus Brain, had full 8-speed Campy triple kit (excepting a TA Alize crankset), and clearly a sport-tour geo (pretty long chain stays). Our frame was built for Terry by Wilier. I saw US-made lugged ones in the Terry Forums which had a for-sale section, and they were mid and late '80s. Yours could date back that far. I don't recall any details about straight bars versus drop, though there were straight-bar models. Mrs. Road Fan's bike has the original drops, 3T stem, and Ergopower levers. I suspect your straight bars were add-ons.

The Bikepedia site has them using Campy derailers from 93 to 98 and switching from lugged to tig-welded frames in 97. The Olympus thumb shifters aren't mentioned for any year. The handlebars are described as Terry T-bars.

Just wow on the deal you got a fairly nice Terry frame with decent campy components and extras for $125. I think you got 4/5x what you paid for. With only a little effort clean up and setup wise this should just be a great bike for a woman 5'2 to about 5'7 so you did just great on this bike. As for the Olympus shifters they where short lived and dicountinued based on legal disputes over naming rights.

Takes me a while... So you're saying that the Classic model predates the 1993 date listed on bikepedia. Do you know when Terry started marketing the Classic?