Career
He became deaf at age 12 after contracting scarlet fever and Faed was a self-applied anagram of "deaf". 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. In the early days of bicycling he was associated with Dunlop tyres.
Faed worked for over 50 years as an administrator of cycling, co-founding the "North London Tricycling Club" (now renamed the "North London Cycling Club"), the "North Road Cycling Club", the "Irish Road Club", the "Road Records Association", and the "Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund".
His influence ranged from the design of the tandem bicycle to the original rules for road time-trials prior to 1900.