SAN FRANCISCO -- It's always good to start things off with a bang.

That's exactly what happened at the inaguaral Moto X competition at X Games V in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon.

	Pastrana gets some "rodeo air" during his nearly perfect first run.

Fifteen-year-old Travis Pastrana, the youngest of the nine competitors, garnered a score of 99.0 in his first of two finals runs. He used the whole course while pulling off a giant superman, a no-handed heel click, and several no handed landings. Halfway through his run, he soared to 29½ feet on a no-handed seat grab that he landed with perfection in route to the gold medal.

"That was awesome," said Pastrana as he signed an autograph on a gigantic styrophome "X".

"I've been riding since I was four. This is really cool."

It was evident after Pastrana's first round score of 99.0 that the other riders would be pulling out all the stops to try and equal Pastrana's mark. The most flashy attempt was Mike Jones who paused mid way through his last run to don a blindfold and then promptly complete a high whip on the center ramp.

When no one equaled Pastrana's mark of 99.0, it became a question of how he would top himself on his final run. The capacity crowd waited in anticipation as Pastrana circled the track raising his arms to entice the crowd.

As the excitement built to a frenzy, Pastrana jumped the dirt ramp on the far end of the course and flew nearly 100 feet off the course and into San Francisco Bay -- bike and all.

"We didn't plan it and we didn't tell anybody," said Pastrana still drying off from his afternoon dip in the Bay.

"When we came in, all the riders thought it would be really cool. Since it was on my last run and it wouldn't hold up the competition, I decided to do it."

Pastrana's bike, the same one he was riding when he dislocated his pelvis from his spine last summer in a practice run for the Lake Havasu Free Air Festival, was recovered shortly after he landed in the water.

Pastrana has been riding since the age of four and has had 18 broken bones in the last three years to show for it. He wasn't sure what kind of response he would get from the X Games organizers and everyone else involved on his leap into San Francisco Bay. But he isn't expecting a pat on the back.

"They probably will (get upset)," said Pastrana. "I don't think they've decided yet."

The San Francisco Police Department echoed Pastrana's uncertainty.

"We're looking into it," said patrolman Gary Castel.