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2012 - Sedalia - 5295
2011 - Bloomsburg - 7330
I'm not sure this represents a serious trend. It is my understanding that rally attendance from the midwest to the west coast are always lower. A larger portion of the membership lives east of the Mississippi, so there might be a greater tendency for them to attend a rally in the east.
Anyone remember how that compares to the previous two years??
Our local rally was way down this year, just wondering if this is a national trend......
Ken
It takes a lot of time and money for those on the east coast to get to a rally on the west coast. I talked to a friend last night who was "somewhere" in Wyoming on his way home from the rally. He has gone to almost every rally in the last 30 years and he said he was not going to go to any more on the west coast. It is not a matter of time or money for him. He said he is not going to ride through a lot of hot flat nothing to get to another rally, regardless of how nice the location is. He described this year's rally as a "nice little Rally".
there is no way in hell that I would attend a rally in Minnesota what with all the pain and misery involved just getting there and then there is the hot humid weather with about a bazillion mosquitos thrown in just for grins.
...... with all the pain and misery involved just getting there.......
Here's the info I had...I believe this came from an ON sometime after June 2012 but I'm not sure which one. I think Ted Moyer was the one that reported these numbers. Using the Mississippi River as the dividing line, I count 18126 east and 13011 west. If you included a few more of the states right along the western side of the Mississippi, the difference would grow quite a bit.
What you call "pain and misery" many of us call riding.