Look out Colorado Springs, El Perro Loco, Nasty Boy, Rat Racer and Tuff E Nuff are in town. And cuddly (we’ll see about that) little Monster Bear, too.

The monster engines of the “Monster X Tour” are revving and those hunking big tires (66 inches high, 43 inches wide) are ready to run right over everything in sight at Norris-Penrose Event Center Friday and Saturday nights.

They’ll race, have wheelie contests, indulge in freestyle action and off-road racers will go head-to-head in competitions called Quad Wars and Tuff Trucks.

But all that excitement is not just of the lucky few drivers. Fearless macho types can take your own monster-truck trip up and over the berms and hills of the arena during a Pit Party as well as the intermission when you, too, can ride in one of the trucks.

Notice we said “ride” and not “drive.” And pleading won’t change that.

MEET “TEAM KJ,” THE MINI DRIVERS

The half pints are in the spotlight this weekend. There’s 9-year-old driver KJ, his 6-year-old brother Jake and a girlie-girl who wears pink, Cassie, the 13-year-old “Demolition Diva.”

They’re all with Uncle Tod Motorsports out of Florida and KJ is the star.

KJ’s dad, Tod Weston, readily admits he was probably the inspiration for sons KJ and Jake to take up racing anything with wheels — or, basically, trying anything that goes fast.

“I was always into motorsports since I was a kid,” says the gearhead, who went to a tech school when he was young.

Tod, and his wife Nancy Olson-Weston and their boys “play” on weekends. If there’s a monster-truck competition, the family heads out together with Nancy driving the “Monster Mission” truck.

“My wife has been very open-minded about it,” says Tod. “It has become a passion.”

KJ’s truck is the 300 hp “Monster Bear” and he became a media darling — even being featured on Nickelodeon — when he was 7. As he grows, so do the seats in his half-size monster truck. He’s on his third seat. And yes, the peddles are adjustable.

Does Tod worry about his son as he watches KJ’s truck charging up and over a course, sometimes going onto two wheels and sometimes whipping out doughnut circles?

“Not really. It would be almost impossible to get hurt in these monster trucks,” he explains, describing the cab cacoon as “sort of like a package filled with foam peanuts.” KJ’s track speed is “maybe 25-30 miles per hour. It’s all just part of the entertainment.”

Little brother Jake didn’t want to follow KJ as a monster truck driver at first, says his dad. Then Tod asked if Jake could help him out by moving the little truck called Sir Crush a Lot. Tod looked in the truck, saw Jake’s big smile and knew there was another driver in the family.  

The boys are into all sorts of other sports, he says, and ride bicycles almost every day, jumping curbs and making jump ramps wherever they can. There have been no broken bones because of the monster trucks, says their dad, “and none of it scares me. Not because I’m immune, but it scares me more when they’re on Razor scooters.”

Next up for the family is more trucks. They have built two and have six more coming.

“We would like to put a truck driving camp together,” he says. When people see KJ, Jake and the other young drivers, families are interested. “When a kid gets in and you get a big smile you know that kid is interested. You want it to be about the kid, not the parent.”

Leading up to their local appearance, the family posted a Facebook comment asking people to help those affected by the Waldo Canyon fire. “This is really important,” says Tod, a business lawyer by day. “KJ likes to give back. He’s a compassionate little kid. Any time we have an opportunity to go to a charity event he really feels it.”

KJ (“Monster Bear”) STATS

Jaret Olson-Weston, “Kid KJ,” age 9

1: age he started skateboarding

2: age he started ATVs and snow skiing

3: age he started dirt bikes and snowmobiling

4: Go karting

Age 5: Jet skiing

Age 6: Pro Mini-Monster Trucks