Channeling Evel, with a Freestyle Twist

Some of the wildest two-wheeled acrobatics can be seen at ESPN's X-Games, whose thirteenth iteration took over LA's Home Depot Center last weekend.

BMX, Skate, and Rally Car events are high-risk enough, but what really takes the danger up a notch are the Moto-X Freestyle, Moto-X Racing, and Moto-X Best Trick competitions.

Freestyle saw a veritable compendium of Don't-Even-Think-About-Trying-These-At-Home stunts that were performed by gravity-defying riders like Adam Jones, Nate Adams, Jeremy Stenberg, and Jeremy Lusk. These guys proved that mere seated inversions couldn't be more mundane, and attempted to outdo each other with terrifying flips like the stripper, the kamikaze, and the Shaolin. Incidentally, Travis Pastrana took a breather from last year's first-ever double back-flip by abstaining from the Best Trick competition, and focusing on the (relatively) more pedestrian race and rally competitions.

Shockingly, the most severe injury resulted not from the daredevil car and motorcycle stunts, but from skateboarder Jake Brown's wicked 40-foot fall. Go figure.