Barricade

Barricades are obstacles in a race course that conceal secret routes of the course layout that leading into shortcuts that must be smashed in order to access them. They have appeared in all three games of the Sonic Riders series.

Description
Barricades can come in the form of stationary vehicles, barrels, gates and other such varying obstacles that are placed in the race, sealing off access to routes. The player is able to smash through such obstacles by simply riding straight into them. For each obstacle destroyed in succession, the racer gains Air/Gravity Points. While any character can smash through them, it is highly recommended only for Power Type characters or characters riding on Bike or Wheel-type Extreme Gears to access these routes because if non-Power Type characters attempt to destroy barricades they will bounce right off after contact with the obstacle, costing them a disadvantage in the race and no Air or Gravity Points will be gained.

Sonic Riders
Barricades first appeared in Sonic Riders where only Power Type characters or characters riding on Bike Type Extreme Gears are able to smash through obstacles without slowing down, gaining Air in the process.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
Barricades reappeared in Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity where only Bike-type and Wheel-type Extreme Gears are able to smash through obstacles without slowing down, gaining Gravity Points in the process.

Sonic Free Riders
Barricades reappeared again in Sonic Free Riders, where the ability to can be used if the player chooses the Power Skill Gear Part to place on his/her Extreme Gear before a race or chooses to ride on a Bike-type Gear. However, the player cannot destroy barricades and obstacles by simply riding through them. Rather, due to the Kinect controls, the player has to make alternating punches in order to destroy them.