Brad Pitt is apparently a pretty awesome dad. For his son Maddox’s 11th birthday, the 12 Monkeys co-star revealed a gift the boy won’t soon forget: a brand new motorbike. And not just any motorbike, either. Pitt and wife-to-be Angelina Jolie’s eldest child will soon be buzzing around on a Suzuki DRZ-125, which can reach speeds of 50 miles per hour. What’s even more impressive is that Pitt purchased the gift from a dealership in Ruislip, Germany.
“He wants the boys to be able to ride them on private land,” one source explained to E! News . “It’ll be a fun thing for them to do, and obviously he has a real passion for bikes which he’d like to pass on.”
Regarding the motorbike, another source told US Weekly that Maddox’s parents were initially hesitant to purchase such a gift for their 11-year-old son. “He wasn’t sure of the safety and wanted to think about it,” the individual explained. “It’s a great bike for a kid to have as his first — it’s a junior dirt bike, so very safe, low powered but still very fun.”
Maddox is certainly no stranger to danger. The youngster was spotted tooling around with his parents on a motorcycle when he was just four. More recently, the birthday boy joined his mom for a flying lesson in Hampshire, England last September. From where I’m seated, a Suzuki that tops out at 50 miles-per-hour sounds like the perfect gift for the kid.
This fall, Pitt will return to the big screen in director Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly , which, according to IMDb , follows the adventures of a “professional enforcer who investigates a heist that went down during a mob-protected poker game.” The film, which also stars Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, and Sam Shepard, opens on October 12. You can check out the trailer below.