<P> Membership of the CTC inspired the Frenchman, Paul de Vivie (b . April 29, 1853), to found what became the Fédération Française de Cyclotourisme, the world's largest cycling association, and to coin the French word cyclo - tourisme . The League of American Wheelmen in the U.S. was founded in Newport, Rhode Island on May 30, 1880 . It shared an interest in leisure cycling with the administration of cycle racing . Membership peaked at 103,000 in 1898 . The primary national bicycle - touring organization in the U.S. is now Adventure Cycling Association . Adventure Cycling, then called Bikecentennial, organised a mass ride in 1976 from one side of the country to the other to mark the nation's 200th anniversary . The Bikecentennial route is still in use as the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail . </P> <P> The first cyclists, often aristocratic or rich, flirted with the bicycle and then abandoned it for the new motor car . It was the lower middle class which profited from cycling and the liberation that it brought . The Cyclist of 13 August 1892 said: "The two sections of the community which form the majority of' wheelmen' are the great clerk class and the great shop assistant class ." H.G. Wells described this aspirant class liberated through cycling . Three of his heroes--in The History of Mr Polly, Kipps and The Wheels of Chance--buy bicycles . The first two work in drapery shops . The third, Hoopdriver, goes on a cycling holiday . The authors Roderick Watson and Martin Gray say: </P> <P> Hoopdriver is certainly liberated by his machine . It affords him not only a country holiday, in itself a remarkable event which he enjoys immensely, however ignorant of the countryside he may be, but also a brush with a society girl, riding on pneumatics and wearing some kind of Rational Dress . </P> <P> The book suggests the new social mobility created by the bike, which breaks the boundaries of Hoopdriver's world literally and figuratively . Hoopdriver sets off in a spirit of freedom, finally away from his job: </P>

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