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Cycling Down the Champs-Elysees Frame Color:Unframed He doesn't want to beA family rides bicycles on the Champs Elysees on a Sunday morning in 1956 in Paris, where cycling has always evoked freedom. "Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes," The Times has written. "Though the first functioning two wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.' " There are no bicycle helmet laws