The Complete Free Rider Directive

The Complete Free Rider Directive

Hi there! Welcome to the Official Complete Free Rider Directive run by TPlacella

Have you ever wanted to find a specific forum thread or contest but can't be bothered painlessly searching on forums? Did you need to look up ghosting and trackmaking information but didn't know where to go? Has there been a time when you were interested in reading a certain topic about the game? Did you want to find out about the game's various updates and significant events over the years? Ever thought about all the amazing Community Collabs that have occurred? Do you want to discover all the editors and tools to enhance your trackmaking and game experience? Have you ever wondered about the history of other Free Rider games?

Well, you've certainly come to the right place!

This thread contains pretty much every significant forum thread, source and website accessible throughout FRHD's history so you will never have to go looking elsewhere!

HAPPY SEARCHING!​

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Overall History and Timelines

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Free Rider Series
Free Rider Series: A Brief History by TPlacella
The Free Rider Universe by TPlacella

FRHD
FRHD Timeline 2013-2025 by TPlacella
Old FRHD Timeline by cctvcctvcctv
Pssst's History of Free Rider HD by pssst (Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4)

Pre FRHD
Free Rider archives by Ness
FR2DB/Canvasrider History by Isenki

track editor 1.1/freerider.app

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track editor 1.1 by Ness and Pie42 with features/help from Polygon, Calculus, pinn and Char
freerider.app created by Ness with features by other people

Ghosting Threads/Sources

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Featured Ghosts
Official Featured Ghosts
Ghosting Awards/Community Polls
Ghosting Statistics
Featured ghosts (closed/outdated)

Guides/Tutorials
Spacebar Tutorial - Tips and Tricks (Video) by Ultraviolet
Part 1: Ultimate FRHD NSB Ghosting Guide by TPlacella
Part 2: Ultimate FRHD NSB Ghosting Guide by TPlacella

Rankings/titles
FRHD All-Time Top 100 Ghosters
Ghosting Legends

Other Sources
Free Rider HD Speedrun.com page
BHR Ghosts

Trackmaking Threads

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Featured Tracks
Feedback from featuring discussions
Featured Tracks Information by Maple
Suggest a featured track! by Stig

Titles
How to become a VIP

General trackmaking/drawing/promotional threads
Post Your WIP Screenshots Here by Coffee
Drawing Thread by Maple
Track Galleries Forum

Guides/Tutorials
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Free Rider HD's Track Making Compendium compiled by Volund
The ultimate guide to trackmaking
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Seasnail's Guide to Portals by Seasnails
Perspective 101 by AfterImage
Fluffy's "how to" by Fluffysmack
rayb's guide to making trees and rocks by Rayb25
Auto Thread by a_drain
AngryGroudon's Guide to Auto Making by AngryGroudon
Tutorial - Grid Ride Creation by mR..A
Editor Tips and Tricks by mbcool

Track Codes
Free Rider HD Track Encoding by phi16
How track code works by Xcape
Track Code by MaxwellNurzia
A quick explanation on free rider code generation by fantomeblacktree
FRHD Thumbnail by mudkip

Games
Forum game: Guess the track started by Max007x
Forum Game [Guess That Track] started by Netsik (active one)

Leaderboards/Lists
Featured Tracks Leaderboard by dantexpress (outdated/incorrect)
Freerider top 100 (2023)
OFFICIAL FRHD SUBSCRIBERS LEADERBOARD by loge_0
Removed and Deleted Featured Tracks by TPlacella

Significant Threads

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Informative Threads
Members
Which Country Do You Live in? by dantexpress
The Oldest 100 Users on the FRHD Forums by Tubiek
forum growth 2013-2016 by RadiumRC

Tracks
How the Community Classic Tracks are Organized - A Small Research Project by NotVeryGood
Every Single Deleted Community Classic Track - A Small Research Project by NotVeryGood
track cataloging project started by Ness
decade by RadiumRC (number of tracks posted each month from November 2013 - December 2022)

Miscellaneous
Free Rider HD Glossary by Azgr00
Free Rider Backgrounds, Banners, Logos and Icons by TPlacella
Secret Game and Forum Pages by TPlacella
How Tall is Pete in FRHD? by TPlacella

Chat Threads
FRHD Chat Thread by Cynic
IRL Pictures by Hashplant
Pour Your Heart Out by Madara
Post What You're Listening To by Pancakes345

FRHD Mod, Tool, Script and Editor Catalog

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FRHD Mod, Tool, Script and Editor Catalog by TPlacella

Game Updates, FRHD Awards and Community News Papers

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Game Changes and Updates
FRHD AWARDS
Community News Paper
Free Rider Feed 2016 (May - October) by AngryGroudon

Free Rider Top 100 Lists

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Free Rider Top 100 (2018) by Netsik, Elibloodthirst, Cynic, Madara and Chaos-Fallen
Free Rider Top 100 (2019) by Elibloodthirst, Madara and Totoca12 (updated in 2022)
Free Rider Top 100 (2023) by Elibloodthirst, Ness and Volund (updated in 2024)
BONUS: Canvas Rider Top 100 by Ness

Community Collabs

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Regular
Is This Real Life? hosted by mR..A (thread here)
This Can't Be Real Life hosted by mR..A (thread here)

Ghosting
Canvas Rider/BlackHat Rider
Ghosting Collab 2012 hosted by pssst
BHR GHOSTING COLLAB 2K15 hosted by pssst
Ghosting Collab '16 - '17 hosted by CityShep (thread here)

Free Rider HD
The Great Race hosted by pssst (thread here)
2020 Ghosting Collab hosted by Eryp (thread here)

Wall of Fames
Black Hat Rider
Wall of Fame 2012-13 hosted by okmaster
Wall of Fame 2013-14 hosted by okmaster
Wall-O-Fame 2014-2015 hosted by Chalk
Wall of fame 15-16 hosted by Noob

Free Rider HD
FRHD Wall of Fame 2016 hosted by DblU (thread here)
FRHD Wall of Fame 2018 hosted by DblU (thread here)
FRHD Wall of Fame 2019 hosted by Eryp (thread here)
FRHD Wall of Fame 2020 hosted by DblU (thread here)
FRHD Wall of Fame 2024 hosted by Volund (thread here)

Archival Threads and Accounts

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Account Recording Threads
kv99gun Accounts by RadiumRC (updated list by Tubiek here)
Kzabrikov Accounts by RadiumRC (updated list by Azgr00 here)

Track Archive Accounts
deletedfeatclassics run by loge_0 (contains removed featured tracks and unfinished tracks)
BHRtracks run by Eryp (contains a variety of Black Hat Rider tracks)
archivist run by Ness (contains Free Rider tracks found on old forums and databases)

Community Accounts
Official Free Rider HD Account started by 45ones and partially owned by Char and gun, now locked by 45ones (2018)

FRHD Contest and Event Timeline

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FRHD Contest and Event Timeline by TPlacella

 

really

 

cool stuff but why did you make it all red

 

you don't like it?

 

you can keep it if u want

 

you didn't answer my question tho, what was wrong with red in the first place

 

i personally didn't like it all that much

 

I have to admit this is helpful instead of scrolling through the threads and searching stuff up every time.

 

I've finished adding every Free Rider website and forum I am aware of. It is extremely hard to track these down due to the websites being closed or Flash shutting down. Some of them are accessible on Wayback Machine so you can see what they used to look like, but some Wayback Machine links (for Free Rider 1 and 2) allow you to play the game there. Those Free Rider veterans out there, please tell me if I missed a significant forum or website I am unaware of.

 

I am almost finished making a seperate thread about a brief history of every free rider game where I will move all the links from the game website, forums, social media and discord spoiler in this thread to the other thread. Does anyone old player here know when Black Hat Rider was released? Based on research, it seems to be January or February 2013 but I don’t know the exact date. Can anyone help me here and maybe give a bit more info about the game?

 

Quick update, all the forums and threads for FRHD Teams added. Each category is colour-coded based on what it concerns. Red = contests, blue = trackmaking/ghosting, and everything else is a different colour to be easily distinguished.

 

Where can I find Zycerak Thread

 

yo my account is finna get deleted in two days, but i dont want to lose 35+k xp, anybody know how to switch accounts? I already changed the forums acc but idk what to do from here...

 

Added freerider.app, condensed 90% of the hyperlinks, added more old community collabs (including recent 2024 wall of fame) and helpful threads. Also slightly rearranged trackmaking threads. Can this thread be pinned already please lol.

 

Added National Free Rider League and Free Rider HD World League under Ghosting Contests. The thread was also pinned by Eryp