Some of the world’s greatest extreme athletes are in Prince George for Nitro Circus, running at PGARA on Friday night.
The motocross stunt show will be one of the biggest events the track has ever hosted, according to PGARA President Chris Arronge, who called the riders “the best of the best”
One of the motocross riders, Bruce Cook of Kelowna is back on the bike after breaking his spine if 2014 while attempting a double backflip at a show Hamilton. The accident left him a paraplegic, but didn’t stop him from returning to tour.
Not surprisingly, his parents worry.
“I think I’m north of 20 broken bones, they would have been OK with me giving it up at anytime and maybe taking up something like tennis, but they know it’s a passion so they’ve been supportive.”
In addition to dirt bikes and BMX bikes, Cook says the riders will be stunting on a series of contraptions.
“Basically anything you can take down a ramp with wheels. We got kids tricycles, there’s a rocking horse, a sofa with wheels on the bottom. So literally, if it can make it down the BMX ramp, we are going to send it – and it’s the same 40 foot gap that the BMX’s are jumping.”
Doors for the show open at 5, things get rolling at 6. Tickets are still available.
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