Board gear

Every helmet, pair of goggles and board a chao can wear downhill, with how each is unlocked and what it costs.

An unlock and a price are not alternatives: the unlock is what puts a piece in the Market, and the price is what it then costs. “Earned, not sold” means the unlock hands it over outright.

40 entries · from the game at 28febcd

Gear	Slot	How to get it	Price	Notes
Skate Lid	Helmet	Clear City Escape	Earned, not sold	A half-shell with a stubby peak. The first thing you earn, and the last thing you outgrow.
Downhill Racer	Helmet	On sale from the start	2,200 rings	Full face, tinted visor, tail spoiler. Built for the numbers, not the tricks.
Powder Cap	Helmet	Clear Avalanche!	Earned, not sold	Earflaps, a chin cord and a bobble. Warm enough for a north face.
Vac Bubble	Helmet	Clear Cargo Run	Earned, not sold	A sealed canopy on a pressure collar. Nobody asked whether a chao needs air out there.
Hill Crown	Helmet	On sale from the start	6,500 rings	Six points, twelve stones and no protection whatsoever.
Shell Cap	Helmet	On sale from the start	1,500 rings	The top half of an egg, cracked clean off. Somebody's, once.
Flight Cap	Helmet	Clear Sunside Surf in under 82 seconds	2,400 rings	Leather, buckled, two swept fins at the back. Built for someone who expected to be flying.
Guardian Crest	Helmet	Clear Avalanche! without crashing	3,200 rings	Banded shell with a spade ridge over the crown. The last of its line, and it looks it.
Treasure Hunter	Helmet	Finish a run still holding 150 rings	3,000 rings	A heart-shaped brow and two pointed ear fins. Worn by someone who is here for the rings.
Pail Guard	Helmet	On sale from the start	400 rings	A dented pail and a chin cord. Protection in the sense that it is, technically, on your head.
Deep Bell	Helmet	Land 30 tricks in one run	2,800 rings	A brass bell with a porthole and a hose that goes nowhere. Heavier than the hill requires.
Orbit Dome	Helmet	Win the race on Ring Divide	4,200 rings	A sealed dome under a gold sun-shield. Overqualified everywhere except the ring belt.
Piste Goggles	Goggles	Win the race on Avalanche!	Earned, not sold	One wide lens, no seams. Keeps the mountain out of your eyes.
River Mask	Goggles	Clear Flooded Forest	Earned, not sold	Two sealed cups and a hard bridge. Made for going under, worn for staying up.
Scan Visor	Goggles	Clear Meteor Herd	Earned, not sold	A lit bar on two arms, and one unpaired pip that is definitely reading something.
Aviators	Goggles	On sale from the start	1,800 rings	Brass rings on a wide band. Older than the sport by about eighty years.
Star Shades	Goggles	On sale from the start	1,200 rings	Two glowing stars where the lenses should be. Visibility: debatable.
Sparkplate	Goggles	On sale from the start	1,600 rings	A hinged faceplate with a green window. For grinds that throw a lot of metal.
Emerald Lenses	Goggles	Finish a run still holding 100 rings	5,000 rings	Two cut emeralds in a hairline frame. They catch the light on every roll, which is the point.
Slipstream	Goggles	Clear City Escape in under 60 seconds	2,200 rings	One wraparound pane split by a bridge vent. Nothing on it rattles at speed.
Brass Optics	Goggles	On sale from the start	2,600 rings	Two brass barrels that do not match, one of which telescopes. Neither improves your vision.
Heartbreakers	Goggles	On sale from the start	2,000 rings	Pink hearts, worn without a trace of irony. Pairs with the ear fins, obviously.
Spyglass	Goggles	Land 20 tricks in one run	1,800 rings	One big lens, one small, and an antenna that receives nothing. Reads the hill a beat early anyway.
Bug Eyes	Goggles	Clear Sunside Surf	900 rings	Two bulging domes on a rubber strap. Enormous field of view, no dignity whatsoever.
City Carver	Board	Win the race on City Escape	Earned, not sold	Long, pointed and low on a wide wheelbase. Street vocabulary, read as speed.
Park Twin	Board	On sale from the start	3,000 rings	Dead symmetric with a big kick at both ends. Rides switch without noticing.
Swallowtail	Board	Win the race on Flooded Forest	Earned, not sold	Short, fat and split at the back, on twin keels. Holds a line through moving water.
Cargo Sled	Board	Win the race on Cargo Run	Earned, not sold	Broad, low, and floating on two pontoons. Built to move crates, not chao.
Drive Board	Board	Win the race on Meteor Herd	Earned, not sold	A deck built around a live Chaos Drive. The emitters do something. Probably.
Light Chaos Board	Board	Clear every course	6,000 rings	Barely there, and haloed. Clearing every hill is what makes it show up at all.
Angel Chaos Board	Board	Win the race on every course	9,000 rings	Six feathers, and the rider's own halo riding the tail. Won by beating every race there is.
Devil Chaos Board	Board	Win the race on every course	9,000 rings	Membrane wings, a spade tail and one horn. Won the same hard way.
Tornado	Board	Win the race on Sunside Surf	5,200 rings	Biplane wings and a nose propeller. It generates no lift whatsoever. It looks like it might.
Twin Roller	Board	Land 40 tricks in one run	4,400 rings	Two big wheels down the centreline instead of four at the corners. Balance is now your problem.
Egg Pod	Board	Clear Cargo Run without crashing	6,800 rings	A floating half-sphere with a rim you stand inside. Built to be sat in, not ridden.
Guardian Stone	Board	Finish a run still holding 200 rings	7,500 rings	A plain deck with a cut emerald turning above its tail. The board is the least interesting part.
Flame Dragster	Board	Clear Avalanche! in under 95 seconds	5,600 rings	Two fat rear wheels, two small up front, and an engine behind that throws fire. Subtle it is not.
Nightwing	Board	Clear Meteor Herd without crashing	6,400 rings	Membrane wings on jointed spars. Reads as bat rather than bird from behind, which is all anyone sees.
Orbit Shuttle	Board	Clear Ring Divide in under 76 seconds	6,000 rings	Delta wings and twin thrusters. Re-entry optional; the ring belt is close enough.
Pintail Cruiser	Board	On sale from the start	1,400 rings	Long, soft-wheeled and entirely unbothered. The one board here with nothing to prove.