A suitable companion piece would by
Across France in Wartime by Kuklos, aka W. Fitzwater Wray, British cyclist and author. It’s his 1916 account of riding from Brittany to the front line and sending dispatches home to his local newspaper - until French authorities sent him back on a train, declaring cycling prohibited in a war zone. If memory serves he rode a Raleigh X-frame equipped with a Sturmey-Archer 3-speed hub.
The later book
The Kuklos Papers includes a chapter “Into The Light” that is generally viewed as his thoughts on cycling at the end of the war.
Another piece of vintage cycling writing tangentially tied to the Great War is Wayfarer, aka Walter MacGregor Robinson’s “
Over The Top,” an account of a March 1919 crossing of a snow-covered pass in Wales. I’ve encountered writings along the way about how the the pioneers of what would become the Rough Stuff Fellowship included veterans using cycling over unlikely paths as part of healing.