Production of bicycles continued at the Chicopee plant through the latter part of the 19th century, but in 1899 A.G. Spalding sold its bicycle division to a massive trust called the American Bicycle Company which controlled 65% of the bicycle business in the US [REF].
Spalding produced the well-known "Spaldeen" high-bounce rubber ball, said to be a re-use of defective tennis ball cores, that was sold to city children from 1949.