DX Road Sector! Batteries not included.
In this episode, Kotaro hears a distant motorcycle noise in the mountains and decides to investigate it. To cut long story short, Gorgom wants something coming from the man who is practicing in the mountains. What is this Road Sector and how strong is this new motorcycle?
Before talking about the actual contents about this episode, let's talk about what Kotaro reminisced about motorcycles. We have this brief scene of him and his brother biking in the mountain areas just for fun. Having this kind of scene made us fans remember about Nobuhiko in just for a brief moment in which until now, we still don't know his fate. This is when the biker comes in. For once, we saw a 10-year-old biker doing feats that a kid of his age can't do and that he is being secretly trained by his father for some reason.
Thanks to Kotaro doing further investigation, we learned that his father is a former racer who disappeared all of a sudden. Because he just disappeared and that he is living in the mountains, there is only one conclusion, Gorgom is somehow involved with this one. After Kotaro saved them from Gorgom's Mutants, we learned his history on how his family got involved with Gorgom. To sum it all up, his father was a former Gorgom scientist and that he created a bike known as the Road Sector. After learning that Gorgom has plans to use the bike for evil and that his son will be one of the riders, he plans not to give his creation to Gorgom. This leads to the death of the former Gorgom scientist and his daughter in-law. Guess it is no surprise that he ends up hiding in the mountains then.
After Kotaro had his talk with the man about revenge, the man decides to give Road Sector to Kotaro since both of them were Gorgom victims. The location where Road Sector is hidden is something that I already expected. There is an underground passage leading to the bike and that they need to go somewhere deep in the forest just to find the bike. As for the bike itself, Road Sector looks beautiful. Color scheme wise, it clashes with Kamen Rider BLACK's black color scheme but who cares; the Road Sector is one beautifully painted bike!
As for its features, it has this special Attack Shield to protect the rider from hurting himself once it rams the machine in extreme speed. When Kotaro tested the machine without transforming, he was able to travel for 500km/h, something that normal motorcycles can't do. But the true test of its power is when during Kotaro transforms into Kamen Rider BLACK!
Because of the appearance of the two Mutants, Kotaro transforms into Kamen Rider BLACK. The first thing that I observed is that the bike is not moving while Kotaro performs his transformation pose. The camera angles only made the scene look like the Road Sector is moving while Kotaro is busy doing his transformation pose. The fights in this episode are fun to watch, but what to watch out for is Road Sector's first battle. Thanks to the kid, we saw more of Road Sector's abilities. If the speed lines are correct, BLACK is travelling speeds more than 500km/h because he can just ram metal crates like he is breaking styrofoam.
At the end, Kamen Rider BLACK saved the day and to make it more special, it seems that he defeated two Mutants in a single episode! What's more, we learned that the Road Sector has a lot of secrets. Guess we should wait for the next episode to see what are Road Sector's other features. Did I mention that Kotaro now is the official owner of Road Sector, making him one of those few Riders who have two bikes simultaneously during the course of his respective series?
