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This explosive and high-speed acrobatic motorcycle act will pull you out of your seat and leave you breathless. Reno Jaton brings 20 years of experience in every type of motorcycle riding and racing as well as all aspects of the movie stunt business to create a show that will amaze and delight you. The show was recently featured on Speedvision, ESPN, Spanish TV and Fox Family Network. This showman can do it all: wheelies at over 100 m.p.h., front wheel stands, wheelies sitting on the handlebars, wheelies standing on the seat, driving backwards and even balanced standing on the seat. He hops off and pavement skis behind, beside and IN FRONT of the motorcycle without a driver, then picks up a second pavement skier for even more unbelievable tricks. Later, partner Cleo Jaton pulls Reno behind the motorcycle on his belly like a human dragster at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h. with a surprising parachute finish. (If that’s not fast enough for you, Reno has done the same trick behind a jet dragster at 168 m.p.h. in the quarter mile; that’s a world record!) Reno finishes the show with crashing a 500cc dirt bike at high speed (he holds the record on that stunt, too, at 101 m.p.h.) or exploding the tire of the superbike with a spectacular burnout.
So how did a nice, French-speaking, Swiss educated electronics engineer end up in a crazy show like this? Reno (born Bertrand Jaton—pronounced in French "zha-tone") saw his first car crash stunt on television at a very early age and was hooked. He crashed his tricycle, his bicycle, his mini-bike, and later his motocross bike (which his parents didn’t know he owned…). After years of racing the motocross and supercross circuit, he packed his tent and propane stove on his motorcycle and left home to become a movie stuntman. He also managed to find time to create his first two world records on motorcycles; one for speed on snow and one for the longest fire jump. Eventually, Reno was running a successful stunt company in Europe; preparing, designing and coordinating all types of car, truck and motorcycle stunts with ramps, fire, water, high-falls, crashes through walls and anything else you can imagine. He doubled stars like Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Jeff Goldblum and even Bo Derek in over 400 movie stunts before jetting off to follow another dream; to come to America with his own show. Reno has performed all over the world; Europe, Australia, South America, Russia, Mexico and more, but his heart belongs in the U.S.A. where he found the sort of life he always dreamed of and where he met is wife and show partner, Cleo. Together, they travel all around doing the show, seeing the incredible beauty of America, meeting fascinating people and making new friends and wonderful memories. Like the time world champion motorcycle racers Kenny Roberts and Eddie Lawson watched Reno practicing the show and commented that there was no way they would try those tricks on purpose, or (Reno’s personal favorite) the young boy who visited the booth after a show and reached out to touch Reno's knee. Feeling the hardness of the body armor under the leather suit, the little guy looked at his mother and said, "See, Mom, I told you he’s made out of metal!" Stop by after the show sometime and share a few stories.