Bring Your Kids to Work day is extra cool when you ride dirt bikes for a living.

It’s Bring Your Kids to Work day here at MotoUSA, and while I don’t have any rugrats of my own, there are plenty of my coworkers who are parading their offspring through the offices to show what we do every day when we leave home. Sure, the parents work in the industry, but motorcycles are a part of life for many of these families and would be regardless. Evenings, weekends and family vacations are centered around motorcycle and ATVs, not just for my coworkers, but a huge portion of the motorsports community in general. Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of that fact when surrounded by the bro-party of the professional racing pits, but the majority of those riders started like anyone else – bopping around with the fam.

Personally, I came from a family devoid of motorcycles – a fact I could never comprehend. How could anyone possibly not want to spend every waking moment on two wheels, right? Even though I wished it were different at times, I still managed to make dirt bikes a part of my life – mostly through magazines (hence the career choice). However, after seeing all these kids and their parents mill around the MotoUSA offices, it reinforces the strength of grassroots motorcycling. How cool is it that we can introduce this stuff to our kids and foster a shared enthusiasm that spans generations? Someday, my own kids will get that first motorcycle experience - a Christmas or birthday present that shapes the path of their lives.

Can any of you guys relate to that?