Sky-sled
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A sky-sled is, well, a sled that skies. It has no wheels. A Transformer can fly them through the air. While standing on it.
Their capability for dangerous speed is favored by younger riders.
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Fiction
Marvel Comics continuity
Marvel The Transformers comics
During Unicron's attack on Cybertron, Nightbeat, Siren, Jazz, and Hot Rod were seen riding sky-sleds into battle. Siren rear-ended Jazz. And Hot Rod, well look at the picture above to see him almost knock off Nightbeat's head! On the Edge of Extinction!
Marvel Generation 2 comic
Later, Optimus Prime would use a sky-sled to travel through space from the Warworld to Twilight to have a word with Jhiaxus. Though the crew of Twilight picked up Prime on their monitors, Jhiaxus allowed Prime to reach his ship. A Rage in Heaven!
Classics
After their ship, the Graviton, crash-landed on prehistoric Earth of Primax -408.24 Epsilon, Ultra Magnus's Autobot crew discovered that three stasis pods containing experimental bodies had been ejected from the ship. The Autobots loaded up onto a sky-sled to go retrieve the stasis pods, but Dirge and Seawing shot down their sky sled. Shattered Expectations
2005 IDW continuity
Impactor used a sky-sled in the Wreckers' mission to rescue Xaaron from the Sonic Canyons, just before slamming the sky-sled into a drilling platform. Ironfist, the Wreckers' unofficial biographer, managed to purchase most of the sky-sled for four thousand creds and one of his eyes. Last Stand of the Wreckers #2
That sky-sled was on display in Ironfist's lab at the Kimia Weapons Facility. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4 Unbeknownst to anyone else, Ironfist also hid the sole remaining sample of his secret shame Gideon's Glue inside the sky-sled. His supposed friend (and murderer) Skyfall would later uncover it and use it to commit suicide when his crimes were uncovered. Bullets
The same sky-sled apparently survived the destruction of Kimia and ended up in the workshop of Ironfist's mentor, Wheeljack. Stick Together
Beast Wars: Uprising
A sky-sled was ridden by Squawkbox during the Siege of T'Muk during the Great War. By the late 24th century, it ended up as an artifact in the Museum of Decepticon Heritage in Kaon. Packrat stole it in order to make off with a more valuable artifact, the Stone of Sky Warp, evading Vorter's missiles by flying the sky-sled. Cultural Appropriation
Games
Transformers: Earth Wars
Hoist, on a sky-sled playing the roll of The Arisen, visited the Autobots and Decepticons celebrating a Deliverance Day ceasefire. Prime Deliverance Event
