like
why not just say "fifty-year-old skates"?
it would both mercifully leave it up to interpretation and sound less unnatural as long as you replaced the verb in that sentence with 'run' or something (imagine if in Riders she always spelled out "You think you can win with that Extreme Gear board?")
but also i'm just really not a fan of how suddenly deciding that Shadow has been riding around this whole time on an actual Extreme Gear - which surely must be among the fastest, since using them he matches Sonic's speed - trivializes the Babylon Rogues in hindsight.
his shoes should just be their own unique thing imo
So while I still dislike the line and maintain that it is awkwardly phrased, I stand corrected on the status of Shadow's Air Shoes, which do appear to be implied to fall under the Skate Gear category, and I was incorrect to characterize this as a retcon despite this being the most explicit confirmation of this to date.
