LOS ANGELES (AP) – Every couple of years there’s a moment that defines the can-you-top-this attitude of the X Games, something so stunning that even the world’s best action sports athletes can’t believe it.

Travis Pastrana had one of those moments.

Pastrana pulled off the unimaginable in the X Games Friday night, completing a double backflip in Moto X Best Trick that brought the fans to their feet and left his fellow competitors shaking their heads.

“It was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen,” bronze medalist Blake Williams said.

Fourth after the first round, Pastrana knew he needed to pull off something big to get gold. With his mother, Debby, anxiously waiting next to the course, Pastrana did just that, whipping his 200-pound motorcycle around in two complete revolutions.

Pastrana pumped his fists in the air shortly after landing and was mobbed by fellow riders as he ran down to the bottom of the course. The 22-year-old from Annapolis, Md., then raced up to the top of the dirt pile landing area, where he pumped his fists to the crowd in a king-of-the-mountain moment.

Pastrana was mobbed again as he stood at the top, rolled down the front side of the hill, then went over for a long hug with his mom.

The trick earned Pastrana 98.60 points – nearly five more than silver medalist Mat Rebeaud – and should rank right up there with Tony Hawk’s 900 in the 1999 Skateboard Vert as one of the best tricks in the 12-year history of the X Games.

“Even if the trick that I had before would have won this event, as for freestyle, I’m not as much about winning as pushing myself and stepping up to the plate when you know you’ve done your homework, you know you’ve tried, but you just don’t really know if it’s going to work,” said Pastrana, who was the first Moto X rider to land a single backflip in competition. “It means to a lot to mean to step up and hook something. That was the coolest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

In other events, Chad Kagy finally won gold in BMX Vert and Chris Cole backed up his bronze in Skateboard Street a year ago with gold this time around. Cole was virtually unknown in skating circles when he surprised the field and took bronze in Skateboard Street at X last year. Since then, he’s become one of the biggest names in street skating.

, adorning numerous magazine covers and being named Thrasher magazine’s skater of the year.

Cole, from Statesville, N.C., kept is big run rolling at this year’s X Games, racking up 90.68 points to win his first X Games gold. Ryan Scheckler of nearby San Clemente took silver with 85.31 points and Andrew Reynolds of Winter Haven, Fla., was third at 85.06.

Considered big for a street skater – 6-foot-1, 186 pounds – Cole was easily the most consistent skater in the street finals, nailing his tricks off the rails and flying off the staircases. It was a great way to cap off a year that included the birth of his first son.

“It was awesome – 2005 was a big year for me and this year I’ve got a lot of other stuff going and it’s as fulfilling,” Cole said.

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