Who remembers Carol Addy? [Archive] - RoadBikeReview Forums

hawker12

11-18-2005, 01:35 PM

You bet. She is now a pediatric surgeon at Johns Hopkins and a competititve runner. She was talented and uh....nice to look at.
Enjoy. Here is a link with pics: http://thecaboose.org/addy.htm

Rebecca Twig had a few nice covers on Bicycle Guide as well. :)
and was a great world class racer.

Addy Admirer

by Maynard Hershon

Carol Addy road-raced at national level in the '80s. I believe she did well, but I don't really know. I wasn't a fan; I was an admirer. I had a huge crush on her.

She was on this Fuji poster you saw in shops. She was standing behind her bike wearing her Fuji-SunTour jersey and a pair of ankle-length tights. I worked in a Fuji shop. I looked at the poster. I thought, "Oh my. That woman is SO hot. They must print that poster on glossy asbestos."

I only saw Carol Addy once, one of the years the East Coast bicycle trade show was in Atlantic City. Eastern shows were quiet enough so you could take breaks. You could wander outside onto the famous boardwalk. My friend Donald Dickson and I did that. We walked outside, bought coffees and sat on a bench facing the Atlantic, chatting, smelling the salt air.

We saw Carol Addy standing, elbows on the railing, gazing out over the ocean. She was wearing sunglasses, a trench coat and heels. She didn't look like a bike racer or a gambler. Or perhaps she did look like a gambler, a Bond movie princess playing baccarat in an elegant Monaco casino.

She looked like royalty hiding behind sunglasses, or a Burberry raincoat model waiting for a photographer.

We watched as she studied the white-capped waves and endless rolling distance. She was as lovely and mysterious as the sea, as Garbo ever was or was photographed to be.

I imagined her thinking about the handsome prince who was her suitor and her family's favorite, and the equally handsome but more sensitive playwright who adored her too.

She was probably thinking about how much her feet hurt, standing on the show floor all day in those pumps.

Donald and I thought our thoughts and said nothing. We certainly said nothing to her. He and I still reminisce about that day, the sun shining through the spray, the stunning woman leaning on the rail.

I heard rumors over the years that Carol Addy was going to medical school. A check on the 'net' revealed that, yes indeed, she's a doc now at a major Massachusetts hospital. Lives in Boston, is the word. Someone said she ran the Marathon.

I have no idea if she's married or single, but if it's the former, I hope she married the playwright.

Actually, that's not the end of the story. Encouraged by my editor, I called the hospital and left a message for Doctor Addy. When she returned my call, I read her this piece. She felt flattered by it, she said.

Her bike racing memories seem to come from another lifetime, she told me. She remembered the Atlantic City show clearly. She didn't know him at the time, but her future husband was there, working a nearby booth. He too had been noticing Carol Addy. He followed up on his interest, by golly.

So she didn't marry a writer, as she might've in the fantasy life I'd invented for her. She does still ride her bike but her primary exercise is running, because of time pressures, and she did finish the Boston Marathon.

Take a look at the old Fuji poster. Still looks great, doesn't it?

From the days of seven gears and Benotto tape, the poster that launched a thousand Fuji orders. Lovely Carol Addy: bike racer, doctor, gazer at oceans.