Georgena Terry

Terry has contributed decades of innocation to the cycling industry

By Joyce Gannon | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Georgena Terry developed her passion for bicycling as a college student pedaling through Pittsburgh’s hilly terrain. But though she left the region decades ago, what she learned about bicycle mechanics here helped inspire her to launch Heart of Steel, a business that makes hand-built, steel-frame bicycles for women.

It was in the early 1970s, Ms. Terry recalled, when she spent much of her time tinkering at Kraynick’s Bike Shop on Penn Avenue, Garfield, that she envisioned building a bicycle frame out of steel.

“Steel [industry] was still pretty active in Pittsburgh at that time … so there was kind of a serendipitous thing going on,” she said.

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