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Does anybody fancy guessing how many cams have been sold worldwide?

Jonny

In reply to design crisis:

Hmmm... 22132?

In reply to design crisis:

I can confirm it's at least 8.

In reply to needvert: add another eight

In reply to design crisis: eleventy hundred.
What prize do we get if we're correct?

In reply to thin bob: tch, forgot those ones. Eleventy hundred and sixteen

In reply to design crisis:

160032, did I win?

In reply to dale1968:

How strange, I did some research about how much indevidual items of gear climbers have, and the average number of cams people owned was 9.

In reply to design crisis: One way to estimate it might as follows. Estimate the total number of climbers in 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2010 (assume people replace their cams roughly every 10 years). Add all those up and multiply by the fraction of climbers who have a trad rack. Times by 10 (assume 10 cams per rack).

In reply to design crisis: your right I do own Nine, not eight, apologies....

In reply to remus:

I have the participation numbers for the UK and USA, struggling to find any for Mainland Europe, estimate a quarter have a rack, and the average number owned if 4, guess it should give a rough estimate.

2 million?

In reply to dale1968:

Hmm do I hint sarcasm, just saying that the statistics are proving to be almost accurate.

In reply to design crisis: no I own nine, just forgot!

I've only got 7 that are working

and 2 are retired

is that 9?

No idea on participation rates

In reply to design crisis: 7.. but 4 would be better.

In reply to design crisis: At first I wasn't sure but then I thought about the League of Gentlemen and have settled on a very solid and definite twelve-tee cams sold.

In reply to design crisis:

42.

everything