ORIGINAL: mongo
140,000 approx members
2500 approx clubs
each of those clubs have to have 56 members just to account for the current approx membership.
how many times have you read about some club that caps it's membership at 35?
how many 6 -10 member clubs are there out there in rural america?
i think 2500 clubs is too few just to include the 140,000, without adding in however many non AMAers ya wana count.
We have debated many times what % of the AMA membership belong to a club. Nobody seems to know but the high estimates are 70% and the low 40% As a guess I'll use 50%..........
140,000 X 50% = 70,000
70,000 / 2500 = 28 member average club size.
Given that there are both very large clubs and a lot of very small clubs, and some members belong to multiple clubs, that seems reasonable.
2,500 clubs is probably a good guess.
Brad