Auto-Slider

The Auto-Slider (オートスライダー), also known as Auto Slider, is an Extreme Gear that appeared as a Board type in Sonic Riders and later as a Bike type in Sonic Free Riders. It automatically performs slides when making a sharp turn.

Sonic Riders
"Auto Air Slides when cornering!"

- Game description in Sonic Riders.

This Extreme Gear first appeared in Sonic Riders as a Board type Extreme Gear under the name "Auto Slider". It can be purchased at the shop for 600 Rings from the beginning of the game.

In Sonic Riders, the Auto Slider is a typical board-shaped Extreme Gear. It has a primary yellow color scheme, with white curved shapes down the middle and white edges on the front and back. Most noticeable, it has a recess that runs down the middle that almost splits it in half.

As a Board type Extreme Gear, the Auto Slider is well-balanced in its attributes with average statistics and an average rate of fuel-consumption, and is suited for general riding. When using the Auto Slider in a race, it will automatically perform an Air Slide a second after the player performs a sharp turn, while consuming next to no amounts of air, effectively allowing the player to perform sharp turns without using the controls. However, the players are this able to perform Air Slides normally with the Auto Slider.

While its little air consumption from sharp turns makes the Auto Slider a practical Extreme Gear, it can be rather difficult to maneuver due to the lack of control the players have over the direction they are heading in when performing the Auto Slider-induced Air Slide, since the Auto Slider starts using it automatically whenever the players make a sharp turn when just trying to do, for example, a normal turn.

Sonic Free Riders
"Build for optimal cornering, this gear automatically begins drifting when you begin a curve"

- Game description in Sonic Free Riders.

The Auto Slider returned later in Sonic Free Riders, where it been given a slightly different name, "Auto-Slider", and had been redesigned to be a Bike type Extreme Gear. According to its profile, the Auto-Slider is in this game built for optimal cornering.

Due to having been made into a Bike type Extreme Gear, the Auto-Slider underwent a complete redesign in ''Sonic Free Riders. In this game, it appearance resembles that of a regular streamlined lime green, white and brown motorcycle with fins on its rear.''

As a Bike type Extreme Gear in Sonic Free Riders, the Auto-Slider is more powerful, but less maneuverable than most other types of Extreme Gear, and allows its rider to punch through obstacles and barricades. Its abilities and attributes concerning sliding in sharp curves are the same as in Sonic Riders, though it just boosts in the direction the players are facing when making a particular sharp turn, rather than automatically performing a Air Slide. It can be equipped with only one Gear Part.