Fastest

The Fastest is a recurring Board type Extreme Gear in the Sonic Riders series. In all of its appearances, it is amongst the fastest Extreme Gear in its respective games.

Sonic Riders
"Gear with the highest top speed."

- Game description in Sonic Riders.

The Fastest first appeared in Sonic Riders. It shape and design in this game is identical to that of the Faster, meaning it is a more-than-average slender board, with outlines running across its surface. It possesses, however, a very different color scheme from the Faser, being primarily light blue with black and silver outlines.

The Fastest, as its name implies, is the fastest Extreme Gear in Sonic Riders, possessing a top speed that surpasses all the other Extreme Gears in the game, and its boosting speeds are unusually high as well. However, due to the Fastest possessing incredibly low maneuver abilities and acceleration, it results in the Fastest losing speed when trying to turn, and makes its very hard for the player to recover from deacceleration without boosting. Also, the Fastest does not refill Air from Trick Actions, jumps, grinding, flying, smashing obstacles, or Automatic Trails.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
"The ultimate speed gear, at the cost of all else. If kept at top speed, it is without rival."

- Game description in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.

The Fastest reappeared later in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. As with all the other returning Extreme Gears from Sonic Riders in this game, the Fastest was given a redesign. Just like in the previous game, the Fastest's shape and design is identical to that of the Faster, having been made more solid in appearance, due to having been made less slender and more thick in structure. It was also given a slightly different color scheme, having palatinate blue as its primary color with yellow outlines in the back, while maintaining similar black markings from the previous game. It can be bought at the shop for 1,900 rings.

The Fastest's stats in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity is very similar to the ones in Sonic Riders, possessing maximum top speed, but greatly lacks in other stats, making it harder to control.

Gear Parts

 * Grind: Lets the Fastest grind on rails.
 * Max Speed Up: Increases the Fastest's top speed.
 * Max Speed Up: Increases the Fastest's top speed.

Sonic Free Riders
"This gear is tuned for top speed above all else. Keep it running at max, and nothing else can come close!"

- Game description in Sonic Riders.

The Fastest made another reappearance in Sonic Free Riders. In this game, the Fastest returned to having a more slender and thinner form, but not as much as it had in Sonic Riders, while maintaining its color scheme from Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity. According to its profile, the Fastest is in this game tuned primarily for maximum speed above all else.

Just like in the two previous games, the Fastest's Limit stat is at maximum for top speed, while its other stats are at the lowest minimum, once again making the Fastest hard to control.