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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
Even in WWII there were troops with the UK forces during the landings at and after D-Day that brought bikes over for this purpose.
Yeah, I can see these type of lightly armed troops being employed, doing much of the work that many of the so called small Cavalry units were doing. One of the advantages is that with Cavalry if they dismount to fight, you still need to leave handlers and protection with the horses. Where as bike mounted troops ideally you would need security element with the bikes once dismounted, but then again it wouldn't actually be needed if it was a situation where every rifle counted on the Line.
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Although they did dump the bikes on landing as useless.
There was the Hungarian (?) Fast Corps in Barbarossa who used bikes.
Actually I can see bikes being were useful in a home defence situation "when the bell rings all get straight to HQ."
Their biggest disadvantage is a lack of cross country mobility.