Begode vs Gotway

[sbouju]

 

Is an end-user info available, concerning the use of the Begode name instead of Gotway?

[meepmeepmayer]

The official King Song representative says it was some kind of trademark thing:

[I_Must_Bust]

Gotway is a cooler name tbh. Not sure how you pronounce Begode

Edited December 2, 2020 by I_Must_Bust

[meepmeepmayer]

6 minutes ago, I_Must_Bust said:

Gotway is a cooler name tbh. Not sure how you pronounce Begode

Gotway definitely is (was) a cool name! It's got the "Move it, I'm on a Gotway!" no-fucks-given attitude that you need for EUC riding

Bee-Gow-Duh (click on the speaker icon in the Chinese box)

[I_Must_Bust]

1 minute ago, meepmeepmayer said:

Gotway definitely is (was) a cool name! It's got the "Move it, I'm on a Gotway!" no-fucks-given attitude that you need for EUC riding

Bee-Gow-Duh (click on the speaker icon in the Chinese box)

Does it really translate to bigot? A puzzling choice .

[meepmeepmayer]

That's just a bad translation due to an English loan word, I think.

"Higher virtue", see here:

[atdlzpae]

I'm gonna pronounce it Bigot.
Last e is voiceless.

[Cerbera]

Sorry to resurrect old thread, but where does Extreme Bull come into the equation, being, as it is, lumped in with GW / Begode ? Is it the same people / company ?

Edited July 26, 2022 by Cerbera

[gon2fast]

I could be talking out of my rear quarters, but my understanding is that Extreme Bull is actually a company run by a sibling of the person who runs Begode. Same stuff, different names.

[meepmeepmayer]

I think of it as one company, but two designers. Extreme Bull is run by the brother/some kind of family relation of the Begode guy. I can only explain this by assuming they had different views on what EUCs to build exactly, so they both got to do their ideas! This time - interestingly, both King Song and much later Veteran were "hostile" spin-offs from Begode (then known to us as Gotway) after disagreements about the company's future direction. But the Extreme Bull split is "friendly". Now it's two companies (I guess), sharing a common infrastructure, which makes a lot of sense. So the important parts of the Begode and Extreme Bull wheels (motor, board, battery packs, firmware I assume) are the same between them. Wheels probably assembled in the exact same room. For all intents and purposes (build quality, ride, issues) it's just one company as far as we riders are concerned.

The first Extreme Bull branded thing was a massive (literally) electric scooter. An old Gotway scooter has later (sometimes) been listed under that brand, too. Maybe the EB guy was the scooter guy originally and wanted to build EUCs as well. But there's a scooter on the Begode website, too. The fact that the Commander (first EB wheel) was probably a reaction to the Sherman, the hot new and super successful wheel by the people who had just hostile-left Begode to make their own wheels, and Begode had no counter back then, surely also played a role, maybe the EB guy just got the task. Make your own guesses on how exactly everything happened and works

There's some discussion about the new Extreme Bull in the first few pages of the Commander thread, especially this post by @houseofjob, if you want to read on this.

Edited July 26, 2022 by meepmeepmayer