Well, cute story, absolute BS and starting with a major dating error, but cute. But it gets worse...
No AEF in 1922 (if we were losing the war, sure as hell wouldn't have been called an Expeditionary force by then), they drafted by lottery (they got damned near everyody, and if it were that bad, they would not have missed a soul), there would have been no civi bikes in 1918 (if the WW1 was still going on), stock market crashed in 1929 (but probably wouldn't have it we lost WW1, those conditions would not have existed that caused the damned thing)... I hate cute especially when it is so plagerized it is sickening. Have read several stories like this (and at least one episode of Outer Limits and several using the Civil War as the "war") making ones own history just for the sake of a lame story is better left to the literary set, lost on me. IMHO, this should be pulled. Stick with reporting on real motorcycles please. Plenty of fiction sights on the web. And to the guy above, I did read the whole thing, didn't make it any better.