 Many bicycle manufacturers, faced with excess inventory and prices too low to make a profit, went out of business.Several dozen bicycle companies consolidated into the American Bicycle Company in 1899.The application of the internal-combustion engine to the bicycle during the 1890s resulted in the motorcycle, and then soon after, the engine was applied to 4-wheel carriages resulting in the motor car or "automobile" which in later decades largely supplanted its unmotorized ancestor.