According to period documents, the 2nd company of III.S.B. had some bicyclists, but the III.S.B. never had a bicycle company in Tsingtau.
One only has to look through the PoW files at:
Prisoners of the First World War | International Committee of the Red Cross - View the records
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I assume it was intended to send a bicycle company to Tsingtau, but they never made it to China and the soldiers and rifles ended up on the Western Front.
The other Seabataillons had bicycle companies during the war.
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