SAN FRANCISCO -- Someday, someone else beside Dave Mirra will win X Games gold in bicycle vert. It just won't be in the 90's.

Mirra closed out the decade the way Matt Hoffman started it, which seemed only appropriate since Hoffman was Tuesday night's competition. Connecting tricks flawlessly as only he can, Mirra won his third straight X Games vert title and eighth gold medal overall. Mirra has won four straight street golds and combined with Dennis McCoy to win last year's X Games vert doubles.

Jay Miron finished second to Mirra for the second time in four days on Pier 30. The "Canadian Beast" had the biggest tricks of the night -- including a 540-tail whip -- but couldn't match Mirra's consistency over two runs. Miron also took silver on the street.

"Winning gold never gets old. Winning (the X Games) is the biggest accomplishment right now anybody can have in this sport." -- Dave Mirra Eight-time X Games gold medalist

England's Simon Tabron pulled off the only successful 900 of the night and took bronze back to his Liverpool home.

But just like in San Diego, it was Mirra's show in San Francisco. His double-gold performance was his third straight sweep of vert and street at the X Games. And with two silvers to go along with his gold, Mirra now owns 10 X Games medals -- by far the most of any athlete in the event's history.

"Winning gold never gets old. Winning (the X Games) is the biggest accomplishment right now anybody can have in this sport," Mirra said. "I'm on a streak right now, but it can end any time I guess. I'm just going to try to ride my best and come back every year and do the best I can."

Oddly enough, Mirra didn't think he rode his best Tuesday night. An overflow crowd and the judges, however, couldn't find any faults in his two rides. Mirra earned an average score of 91.90 and twice landed his trademark spinning flair toward the end of his runs.

His only noticeable flaw came on a high-risk backflip nobody was able to land to end his first run. Mirra over-rotated the trick just a bit and tumbled to the bottom of the halfpipe unharmed.

His second run was flawless.

Mirra started the run with one-handed, no-handed and X-out aerials. He then did a few bar-spin moves before launching into a 540 X-out. Then came Mirra's work on the coping -- both front-side and back-side -- before pulling out a tail whip and another flair to end his run.

"I didn't feel like I rode my best, but I guess the judges did, so I'm happy," Mirra said. "I guess I shouldn't stress out so much and just ride my best and try not to worry so much about competition. It's just natural, as a human, when you are in a contest like this you have to do in that minute-thirty, you don't have another chance, you can't take another run. You got to do it." Consistency counted at the end, as Mirra won in part to his two runs over 90. Miron put together the highest-scoring run of the night (93.20), but problems on his first run resulted in an 85.60 and average score of 89.40.

Miron's attacking style may have cost him gold, but it was a hit with the fans. Along with being the only rider to pull off the 540 tail whip, Miron also wowed the crowd with a huge Superman seat grab and some of the highest tricks out of the halfpipe of the night.

"Too little, too late. I was so embarrassed (of the first run), I had to try it to save face," said Miron, who won both X Trials in vert heading into San Francisco. "The second run was fine, but I'm capable of so more than the first run. I just got stiff. It's really lame. I do that in big contests, I don't know why. I did it last year and now I did again this year.

"I screwed up, what can you do. I don't come here looking for silver, I came here looking to win and it's a real bummer when that happens. Take nothing away from Dave -- Dave rules. Dave is the pro, he's that much better than me. He steps it up when it counts."

While the Thunder Bay, Ontario-born Miron was more than a little disappointed he didn't win, Tabron was thrilled to be taking home his second straight X Games bronze in vert. He rode injured in the finals after tweaking his left shoulder and knee in qualifying Monday.

"I was a bit smashed up from qualifying, I wasn't sure I was going to ride," said Tabron, who rode last year in San Diego with a broken rib. "But I figured I had nothing to lose. That '900' is my saving grace. It's not an easy trick, so I'll take it. A little 'Lady Luck.'"

Dennis McCoy took fourth after taking a nasty fall attempting a '900.' McCoy rode despite an injury to his wrist that kept him out of the street competition.

The feel-good story of the night belonged to Hoffman, however, who wound up seventh, but was just happy to be back riding competitively on his bike. "The Condor" held nothing back despite recent knee surgery, falling hard attempting a flair to end his second run.

"It was just fun to be out there again," said Hoffman.