| Author | Message | ||
| Roger Baughman (Roger)
Registered Member Username: Roger Post Number: 160 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 69.232.73.49  Rating: N/A |
I was wondering, how many of us bus nuts are there in the US. Does any one have an idea? I just would like to know. (Message edited by roger on February 27, 2010) | ||
| L James Jones Jr (Jamo)
Registered Member Username: Jamo Post Number: 129 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 24.59.114.207  Rating: N/A |
OK, I'll start... 1 | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 816 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.53.153.91  Rating: N/A |
number 2 gomer | ||
| Leonard (Tizer4)
Registered Member Username: Tizer4 Post Number: 31 Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 12.73.191.2 Rating: N/A |
#3 Leonard | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 1233 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 74.4.63.215  Rating: N/A |
I guess I am Number 3 (no number 4). The figure I have heard thrown around from several sources is about 5000 converted coaches in the USA. This includes all converted coaches, whether done by the owner or a company such as Marathon. No actual facts or sources to substaniate this. Jack Looks like Leonard & I posted at the same time (Message edited by JackConrad on February 27, 2010) | ||
| Jim Wilke (Jim Bob) (Pd41044039)
Registered Member Username: Pd41044039 Post Number: 450 Registered: 2-2001 Posted From: 184.0.5.73 Rating: N/A |
Jack, looks like you are 4 so I'm 5. | ||
| Luvrbus (Luvrbus)
Registered Member Username: Luvrbus Post Number: 859 Registered: 8-2006 Posted From: 74.32.83.4 Rating: N/A |
FWIW there are 1997 in FMCA | ||
| John & Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
Registered Member Username: Bigrigger Post Number: 361 Registered: 9-2007 Posted From: 24.183.21.246  Rating: N/A |
This is gonna be a long post then. Why do I always have to be 7? | ||
| Peter River (Whitebus)
Registered Member Username: Whitebus Post Number: 218 Registered: 4-2009 Posted From: 24.234.166.174  Rating: N/A |
8. a mini one, but still | ||
| Cory hart (Chart1)
Registered Member Username: Chart1 Post Number: 18 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 187.141.16.210  Rating: N/A |
Number 9 | ||
| john degemis (Degemis)
Registered Member Username: Degemis Post Number: 94 Registered: 3-2008 Posted From: 68.113.39.64  Rating: N/A |
10 | ||
| Roger Baughman (Roger)
Registered Member Username: Roger Post Number: 161 Registered: 11-2006 Posted From: 75.3.203.214 Rating: N/A |
Pretty funny guys,Roger | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1816 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 76.69.140.199  Rating: N/A |
I'll make a dozen..oops, on edit, Roger is fixing the numbers by posting twice. I'll be double one, then. happy coaching! buswarrior (Message edited by buswarrior on February 27, 2010) | ||
| joe padberg (Joemc7ab)
Registered Member Username: Joemc7ab Post Number: 386 Registered: 6-2004 Posted From: 174.26.104.165 Rating: N/A |
Seeing that we currently in these united? states,I should be able to count me in. Currently in Mesa warming our bones a little, next week in Gilbert. Pick whatever number is fine with me Joe otherwise known to be residing in Canada. | ||
| Cable (Fe2_o3)
Registered Member Username: Fe2_o3 Post Number: 38 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 71.112.201.48  Rating: N/A |
Am I the bakers dozen (13)? I think I counted right...Cable | ||
| David Evans (Dmd)
Registered Member Username: Dmd Post Number: 429 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 173.77.219.254  Rating: N/A |
I always tell people its 2000, i dont know if i got that number from FMCA or bus conversions list. Maybe mike or jack knows how many subcribers. BUT i run arcoss bus nuts all the time who say they have no clue to this sight. For example our new place in Pa there is a Buffalo 5 miles from our house, never been on the web here and he knows of another GM possibly an 04 5 miles from him and if i hadent stopped by i wouldnt haveknown aboutthat one. So maybe 5000 is closer? Wives and significant sufferers of the disease should be counted also right? what about skoolies! | ||
| Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
Registered Member Username: Dreamscape Post Number: 637 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 64.40.216.87  Rating: N/A |
I'll be 1968, fill in the blanks guys! | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 1234 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 74.4.63.215 Rating: N/A |
I don't know how many registered users are on this site, but there are almost 2500 on the BCM BB (formerly MAK BB). Of course as mentioned, since many are on both BBs and some are only on one, and some are not on any, and some belong to FMCA and some don't, and some subscribe to Bus Conversions Magazine and some don't, it is very difficult to get an exact count. | ||
| clint hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 611 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.238.13  Rating: N/A |
~`never enough | ||
| Leonard (Tizer4)
Registered Member Username: Tizer4 Post Number: 32 Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 12.73.190.107 Rating: N/A |
9:13 a.m. Leonard (3) 9:14 a.m. Jack (4) Just kidding, Jack...I'll take #4 to keep peace in the family! Plus, I don't have a lot of hard data on how scientific this is. | ||
| Jack Conrad (Jackconrad)
Registered Member Username: Jackconrad Post Number: 1235 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 74.4.63.215 Rating: N/A |
No problem Loenard, I don't care what number I am called as long as I am not called late for dinner LOL Jack | ||
| Ian Giffin (Admin)
Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 1342 Registered: 7-1997 Posted From: 24.239.15.161  Rating: N/A |
Several years ago, George Myers estimated about 3,000 based on FMCA numbers (which are declining, BTW), but I'm sure the hobby captures at least 1,000 more than that due mostly to the networking opportunities available through the internet. Viewers here, like BCM, don't necessarily register because most of the resources are viewable for free without doing so. Additionally, and again like BCM, I'm sure, I am amazed to see so many new viewers registering every day who have never heard of the hobby! So, with fewer FMCA members, the advent of the internet and its networking advantage and given the registrants coming on board day after day (and remember that Jack and I have access to usage statistics from our respective web sites), I'm going to guess that there might be something like 3,500 of us out there. Oh, but don't include me yet. I don't have a bus and I'm not nuts. Uh, ok, I'm nuts. But only slightly crazy! Ian www.busnut.com | ||
| Leonard (Tizer4)
Registered Member Username: Tizer4 Post Number: 33 Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 12.73.190.107 Rating: N/A |
Amen, Jack... Does the number 3,500-5000 include US, Canada and Mexico conversions? | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1817 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 76.66.16.32 Rating: |
With the nature of this hobby being independent, self-sufficient, free thinking, and somewhat unorthodox... I can see there being lots of busnuts who will want to have nothing to do with any of us, or any other formal group. "Joining" just isn't going to be a trait for some who are drawn to this hobby/lifestyle. It will be quite difficult to measure those ones. A side note, I forgot to renew my FMCA last month, and the phone messages have started, politely wanting to know why not... I'll be renewing, but FMCA is in a heap of demographic trouble. They are firmly stuck in some place that parents/grandparents reside, who are dying off, and is not attractive to the boomers and younger. happy coaching! buswarrior | ||
| Austin Scott Davis (Zimtok)
Registered Member Username: Zimtok Post Number: 401 Registered: 9-2006 Posted From: 209.156.24.114  Rating: N/A |
There is a very simple equation for figuring this out.... The number of Bus Nuts is equal to the number of Registered Buses squared minus the number of Comercial Registered Buses devided by 2.... BN=(RB squared)-(CRB/2) . | ||
| Ian Giffin (Admin)
Board Administrator Username: Admin Post Number: 1344 Registered: 7-1997 Posted From: 24.239.5.12 Rating: |
Austin, BN=(RB squared)-(CRB/2)=WTF? Ian www.busnut.com | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 818 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.53.153.91 Rating: N/A |
DO What??? Duhhhh Gomer | ||
| Don Fairchild (Don_fairchild)
Registered Member Username: Don_fairchild Post Number: 37 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 66.17.9.74 Rating: N/A |
Do we get counted by the number of buses we have, Don | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1819 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 76.68.135.22 Rating: N/A |
I have two that can still move, one which shouldn't be seen by the federales on a road... happy coaching! buswarrior | ||
| clint hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 613 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.238.13 Rating: N/A |
... perhaps know where near enough- to justify the tax man from going any further into the feasibility study to see if bus nuts form a large enough pool for special "parasitic consideration". ~ But hopefully enough to meet the survival needs of these sensibly designed effigies of human collective effort. | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 1144 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.245.107.30 Rating: N/A |
 ....way to go, TH...! RCB | ||
| niles steckbauer (Niles500)
Registered Member Username: Niles500 Post Number: 955 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 173.78.39.41 Rating: N/A |
BN=(RB squared)-(CRB/2)=WTF - to the 10th power = answer | ||
| Leonard (Tizer4)
Registered Member Username: Tizer4 Post Number: 35 Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 12.73.188.104  Rating: N/A |
O.K. guys, I may need someone to double check my math but, I’m coming up ONE MILLION BUSES! | ||
| Gary Stacy (Stacytruck)
Registered Member Username: Stacytruck Post Number: 10 Registered: 12-2009 Posted From: 97.125.78.71  Rating: N/A |
Count me in g | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 12 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 166.183.90.56 Rating: N/A |
FWIW....while driving between Chicago & Phoenix on a straight thru run of 28 hrs. I counted on average 7 Buses/class"A" Mtrhms. per hour on the road with me. This happened in late September, when everyone is scurrying from the cold weather about to overcome them granted. As I recall a friend got the total number of US Freeway miles and extrapolated that at ANY given time there are almost a quarter of a million "big rigs" on the road. If each unit contain 2 people that would make 1/2 a million on the road! | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 1151 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.243.143.93 Rating: N/A |
"Class A Mtrhms" are definitely not in the same category.....far as I am concerned....BTDT! Sorta' like calling a VW Bus a "motorhome"...or a skiff a sloop.....or......et al. FWIW RCB (Message edited by Chuckllb on March 03, 2010) | ||
| joe padberg (Joemc7ab)
Registered Member Username: Joemc7ab Post Number: 387 Registered: 6-2004 Posted From: 68.225.145.29 Rating: N/A |
Chuck But you must certainly include the VW bus in the bus catagory. Hiwaycalling has one, and likely it will be replaced someday with something bigger. Joe. enjoying the sunshine in Gilbert! | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 13 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 166.183.121.47 Rating: N/A |
I wouldn't go back to a pre-fab'ed Winne or a clone for all the tea in China either RJ. And you & I both know calling a Yugo or a Pinto a car would cause Bentley & Porsche owners to blanch! |
