Show famine in I Bicycles Is s i Threatened A bicycle clo famine amine Is coming according to to inside Information from bicycle man man- Practically all of or tho the big ble- manufacturers of ot bicycles coop cooperated with Uncle Sam by devoting their plants to the production production production I tion of or munitions munitions airship airship parts hand grenades 75 is shells and military bicycles bIcycles bi bicycles bI- bI cycles of ot a special pattern that very materially materially ma ma- cut down tho the normal output of oC regular models The Ie lost production on account of or war w-ar work and inability to get got steel el has al already already nJ- nJ ready caused a p serious shortage hortage Moro More time will be Le lost while the fac factories factories fac- fac tac-I tac tories aro are chan changing their equipment back to a a. bicycle basis I There Thero Is also alBa a tremendous export demand de dem demand de- de m mand nd for bicycles In the meantime th the existing shortage e of ot bicycles is dally becoming more acute acuto nm and a a. veritable bicycle famine amine seems In Inevitable In- In evitable Men Ien In n the Industry who know tho the ac actual actual actual ac- ac capacity of or tho the plants estimate that It will take at least a a. year for the tho output of oC bicycles to ca catch up with demand eman A good man many thousand boys hos and a R. sizeable n a r of ot men who havo have been I looking for Con ford d c d to owning now new bicycles I this season ma may have havo to walk |