 He was a member of the National Cyclists' Union executive committee and joint editor of the Bicycling Times and Touring Gazette.A founder member of the North Road Cycle club in 1885 he was associated with the industry, the sport, the journalism and the pastime of cycling and touring.He began cycling at the age of eleven and became deaf at age 12 after contracting scarlet fever, Faed was a self applied anagram of deaf.