Originally Posted by
speedracerntrixie
If you are referring to the downward membership trend you are correct. That trend has nothing to do with any of the AMA staff, that is directly connected with the lack of interest the general public has in our hobby. Models are no longer exciting to our youth. Video games and social media are the major forms of entertainment. Just getting kids outside is a challenge, when was the last time you saw a group of kids ages 10 to 14 riding bicycles down the street?
It's not safe to ride a bicycle in the street, anywhere in America that is was in, when I was a child. Every childhood neighborhood I was in, was perfectly safe in the 80's. Revisiting them is painful. Now a kid would be abducted or go missing, in no time at all.
Kids still love airplanes and rockets. Parents are pushing other kinds of daycare.