You will know that you have truly become a dyed-in-the-wool BMX parent when:
· You justify the purchase of a new frame by telling your wife it is a safety item.
· You video your kids races including practice.
· You have a charge account at all the track vendors.
· When you stand for the national anthem and you place one hand over your heart and one hand on your wallet
· You have a email reply from the President of the ABA framed and hanging on your wall
· You have the email from BMX Hall of Famer's autographed, appraised and hung on the wall
· Someone in your neighborhood asks you how old your kid is and you reply "13X"
· You automatically load up the bike and you're only going down to the corner store.
· You fall asleep at the wheel of your car and it takes you to the track instead of home.
· You are late for work but never late for sign-ups.
· Your kids bike is insured for more than your car.
· You pay a computer programmer a whole lot of money to write a points tracking program.
· You buy a real expensive laptop to record the points on.
· You throw out the spare tire in your car trunk to make room for bike parts.
· Your kids birthday cake has a miniature BMX track on it and all his gifts are BMX parts.
· You can't decide whether to go to your sister's wedding or to a double points race.
· A Sunday drive in the country means you're going to a race out of town.
· The first item on your monthly budget is entry fees and not the mortgage payment.
· The only clean clothes in the house are a pair of leathers and a jersey.
· The telephone bill has at least three calls a month to the ABA office.
· Your internet home page is set to www.ababmx.com <http://www.ababmx.com>
· The stoplight at the corner turns green and you try for a hole shot.
· Someone mentions a table top and you look for a pile of dirt.
· You can't remember the birth dates of your family, but can remember the birth dates of every other kid in your kids class.
· You try to claim a bike shop on you income tax.
· You start a BMX business so you can take a tax deduction.
· No one can understand what you are saying but another BMXer.
· You are flabbergasted by the price of hamburger at the supermarket but not by the price of a TI bottom bracket.
· Your kids bike is color coordinated and your living room is not.
