Gotway Monster Pro (MP24) Comprehensive Review 

The footage of the guy hammering the bearing is priceless! Certainly a lot of opportunity to damage the bearing doing it that way!

Man you are way ahead of the game on these early review videos. Impressive

Thanks Vee! I always appreciate your opinion and your perspective.

Wow, bearings, the trend continues. Excellent review Vee!

Good to see you back riding Vee! I would never consider the Monster Pro as there are many other wheels I would rather have. However, it is good to see what it has to offer. I wish you and your family a great holiday season!

Thanks for the informative review. It's always great to get your opinion on wheels!

Thanks for the review! Loved the set on the backyard :)

Thanks Vee...Great vid, and very informative, you presented it very clearly. Thanks. & Happy New Year from Italy.

My heart was beating so fast when you fell. I’m glad you’re okay, but I loved this video so much!!

Awesome video Vee. Good to see you're doing good.

Thanks for the info. Happy holidays. Just got my first EUC been enjoying it.

Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 Vee! We love you here too in California!!!

Thanks for the reviews 😊.

Your vids are what got me to make the EUC life change!!!

Great review Vee, Thanks. Love that standard Poodle!! I noticed that the tire spinning looks unbalanced.. shame on this bearing issue.

Excellent feedback on the Monster Pro. The bearing issues are a real concern on gotway's latest wheels 🤦🏻‍♂️

You're soooo funny in the beginning.of the video! I always wait for your videos! Great video! Great narration.

Awesome patio 👍 Review was great as always. Keep it WHEEL ✌️

Great video as always. WIll still get a Monster Pro in the future but with good bearings and updated firmware just like Veteran sherman had negative reviews 6 months ago then improved well. Cheers Vee! stay safe.

Awesome Vee, thanks.

*Great to get your opinions on it.* So far the impression I get is most dont dislike it per se but they are not impressed.

Looking forward to your review of the new high torque, high speed, suspension wheels coming out. I trust your opinion on these things.

Thanx for the review. It was informative, to say the least.

incredible! thanks for this!

Nice. Enjoying your channel.

Loved the honest review sister

Very interesting review

Interesting first impressions but sad that you have already that bearing/hollow motor problems ! It’s definitely a wheel for US people with your big cars 😝. I love your ramp to put in the trunk 😂😂😂😂. Merry Christmas and happy new year Vanessa !

Hello Vee wishing you a much happier year for 2021 for you & all who follow or can at least keep up with you 😆...Lmao! Hang in there Vee brighter days ahead. 😁 👍👍

Hey Vee, a good & honest initial review. QC & bearings a side (tis GW afterall), this is a BEAST & hence, a MONSTER of a wheel. Its getting so big & heavy one would seriously consider an ebike instead...maybe. I heartily agree that rider weight should not be a factor in accelerating/decelerating or otherwise, its not tuned properly. One thang I gotta say is you're a strong! For a 120lb nuffin', da sista is stronga than alot of brathas!!! 👍

Wow, this is by far 2020’s most aesthetically pleasing EUC. I can only assume the errors in build quality are attributed to the rookie of the year’s(Veteran)offering, and Begode panicked. It is frustrating to watch such a revered company shoot itself in the foot. Hopefully, this EUC Rembrandt will receive the proper adjustments with updates. Many Thanks

Thanks Vee!

o/ Vee. Thank u for your review, very informative. U right, problems with new big bearings have a riders Ex, Monster and RS. New bearings have a big price. Sherman with his Z10 bearing looks better here.

The last time I heard you got into an accident involving with a car. Looks to me you're doing fine, and that's great. I'm conflicted right now. My eyes is set for the Sherman, but this looks like it fit my weight. I just wish it was more protected for the shell like the Sherman with it's roll cage. Great video review Vee.

I leave this under every video I watched, it helps the algorithm..

Thanks again for another great video and content Vee. As always keep up the good work shake them haters off.

I was expecting more from the Monster Pro. That big motor does not seem to be doing much for it's torque. Its seems to be there just to carry the weight of the wheel. I want a second wheel, but all of these hollow core issues have me just watching reviews to see what the next gen fixes are actually fixing. Thanks for the review, great as usual!

Merry Christmas!..🙆‍♂️

There is no one perfect wheel, but for long range comfort cruising, I think the mpro is perfect. The 24” inch wheel size makes me consider adding it alongside my Sherman.

People should get this wheel for cruising and long distance riding. If you want a performance wheel, get a smaller one, like the RS.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts here Vee. Seeing the guy hammer a bearing in is causing me pain, since all you need to get the bearings in is just a bottle jack and some appropriately sized wood. Very much a gotway approach, brute force with a little bit of finesse (rubber mallet head, but still yeesh).

As a Monster v2 owner, I'm very interested in this wheel. I'm also a firm believer that rider size is key when choosing a wheel. I'm 6ft tall and 230 lbs. Riding any wheel smaller than 18 inch is interesting to say the least. I have no issues with agility of my wheel but I'm starting to wonder if Gotway didn't go a little overboard with the size and weight of this wheel. It's about 50% heavier than the last generation of Monster and a solid 20% larger. I feel fairly confident that I would find it easier to carve this wheel than you do, Vee. It's just simple physics, the wheel is still less than 50% of my weight but over 80% of your weight? Regardless, to go from 65 lbs to 100 is a very large jump in weight and must have it's consequences. Too bad there are problems with the bearings almost immediately out of the box. Thanks for the honest review and I look forward to your future videos!

nice vid !!

Cool Aunt Vee! I have to say that on one hand, this is very disappointing - but on the other, very encouraging since if I tried to purchase another wheel, my wife would DEFINITELY put me out! ESPECIALLY at this price point! In all honesty, I was looking forward to this potentially being wheel number four (though two of the three were purchased this year, maybe two months apart - the MSP speed version and the Sherman) I guess I'll be waiting to see what 2021 brings. These reviews by yourself and evx were a tremendous relief to my wallet! Gotway/Begode need to go back to the drawing board and blame these last few releases on Covid Induced Hysteria and Rogue Employees! Appreciate your contributions to the advancement of the culture 🙌🏽👍🏽👌🏽👊🏽🙏🏽🔥🧑🏽‍🚒

I loved you pushing the box into the house. Who says that you don't get proper exercise with these wheels? :)

whatsup Vee, just saw ur video randomly, having my post christmas breakfast. ive no experience with the monster line either (RSHT rider), but my interest piqued at the mention of the bearing issue. this seems to be an issue for all hollow bore type of eucs from what im seeing.....ive noted many people in the euc ommunity seem to think that this knocking noise is a bearing issue and others just follow suit for lack of a better explanation/lack of interest in pursuing this problem. im mentioning this here because you seem to have a thoughtful air about you and i just want to say...i developed this issue in my own RS during my second ride basically. I opened up the euc though, and it is NOT the bearing. i say this with confidence because once you open the motor cover, the bearing remains seated on the inner lip of the cover and you can spin it freely to feel for any scraping or friction and mine were fine. there is just some wire that scrapes or hits the inside motor cover, or some magnet or coil is slightly misaligned (that could be caused by some harsh bumpy ride or high impact to the wheel from any direction). for me, after i put the aluminum motor covers back on, the sound did indeed go away. but at the time, id no idea what i was looking for so it was a simple "dissassemble/reasseamble job." the sound did return though when i tried to gently carve (throw the wheel of out its center of gravity by swaying left to right). one thing i appreciated immensely was your comment about how going into soft mode lessened the sound btw, because i too had the same experience. it actually makes me think that it is more an issue related to how the hollow bore motors actually work (regarding the magnet and coil assembly "firing sequence"") rather than just a bearing issue. granted it could still be that people have their bearings fail after a snowy or wet condition ride, mixed with the salt and all, and this would further make ppl think that all these hollow bore motors suck because the bearing sucks for all of them...but again...i think there is a shortage of technically savvy or handy or older people who have acquired the hollow motor types of euc and thats why we are still in limbo about this issue. to qualify my thoughts a little better, i used to skateboard when i was younger and dealt with all kinds of bearings (albeit on a smaller scale but the principles remain the same). I rode them in the pouring rain and would just let them crust up with dirt and corrosion and have their seals come off and they still worked (still turned with negligible friction, that would be overcome the minute i got on the board). the RS bearings seem to be the same as those but bigger. and it seems your monster pro has the same too. the rubber mallet used in the video can be damamging yes, but i dont think it is, unless they are hitting the actually ball bearings inside the bearing assembly. yes a hydraulic press to evenly seat the bearing would be best, but imo, not cause for concern. i apologize for this long a feedback, but i hope it helps happy holidays Vee, keep doing ur thing - RSHT, NYC

I feel you.

Great review Vee. Love the Christmas 🎄 hat 👍 Like the ramp too. Think I need one of those for my Sherman 👏 I do love the Monster look with the large wheel. I think I prefer the less ‘porkier’ wheel of the V3 though. We’ll be riding the front wheel off a penny farthing in the future at this rate 😄

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12:10 great view on the rear of this wheel, see you notice the wheel is out of round. Consider when these bearings are installed the wheel must be true or maybe perhaps balanced if that's possible.👍🏼

Love your review. Would love to see another full review of the wheel when you get your motor replace. Nice one Vee. Where did you purchase this wheel ??

Thanks for the video. You're the sec review I've seen on this wheel. All i can say is you don't seem excited after riding this wheel

That intro was great...lmao watching you try to push that box into the door. Wheel weights as much as you lol.

I’ve been hearing the wheel doesn’t have much torque that’s upsetting I had such great hopes for the wheel since I’m taller and kinda heavier rider 😕 great review Vee

hey Vee, the thickness of the motorwires has nothing todo with the charge rate of the wheel. When you want to be sure that the wheel can be charged with 20Amps(which i doubt!) only the thickness of the charge wires, AND the constitution of the BMS‘s inside the battery pack is relevant.

That is unfortunate about the bearing issue, Vee. Though I'm not interested in purchasing this model (I just bought the Sherman, and I'm waiting for it to arrive next week), I would really like to hear your additional thoughts on this wheel after you have logged some more miles. Hopefully this gets fixed, and you get an opportunity to do that. Though I like is the addition of the voltage meter on top where it can be read easily (I think this should be standard on ALL EUC's), some of Gotway, er, Begode's decisions puzzle me. The placement of the lift sensor switch (especially on such a large, and heavy wheel), along with the rather weak trolley handle, and speaker placement, makes these appear as more of an afterthought. The clip of the bearing install is painful to watch, and YIKES on the loose bolts. Rebranding isn't going to help if they don't improve on the QC. Hopefully this gets fixed for you, and you can test some more. Thanks for the video, and your review. Subscribed., and looking forward to more content.

Where can I order the Monster Pro?

Thanks for review. But why no offroad, stairs, bumps, narrow places with turns or else?

definitely have to use a press to set bearings that's crazy that they're using a hammer, thanks for that info

Looking at this video of the bearing replacement this was great to see, whilst the installation "may" not have been correct, the force required was tapping, this would indicate to me that a manually operated hydraulic press could be used to seat the bearing ring. Im very interesting in the process of removing the bearings, if this footage is available could anyone provide a link? it does not look that the bearing ring is custom, so it should be possible to find much higher grade bearing ring. Personally I feel that I will just need to purchase more equipment to maintain and repair my EUC, Hollow motors are here to stay. Many thanks Vee.

Even your dog seemed unimpressed! How fast did you manage to get it up to? I rode it and found the wheel fighting me the faster I wanted to go. The complete opposite of the Sherman. Even the old Monster didn't exhibit this issue.

Yes!

Vee! Peace ✌🏿 just checking in. Haven't been thru in a while.

I’m definitely going to wait for GEN 6 to many issues they meet to Tweak first

If that wheel isnt torquey and it isnt super fast either then whatt does Gotway DO with those 3.500 Watts?! Watts is nothing but torque by speed after all, so if there is neither torque nor speed where does it all go?

You are no where as heavy as me but u look good on the monster. Im 210 and i still have to lean in to make my monster go

I'm a very tall, heavy rider who does mostly long range cruising so I'll probably get a monster pro eventually. That said, I don't trust Gotway enough to buy a first generation wheel. No sir. I have 2 Sherman's for now and Gotway's gotta step up their game.

Just like all the Monsters. Carving takes a lot more energy and it behaves somewhat like the Z10. So no surprises there. All the Monsters have a noticeable pedal dip too. That's just the way the Monsters are. Love it or hate it. And Monsters can be great on trails. But all these new motors are depressing and make me very suspicious of buying any, for now. In this video it felt like you wanted to say it's a turd but were hesitant to say so, for some reason :-)

Starting to hear bad things about the hollow motors. I know I don't want a hollow motor.

That’s a huge EUC-now I know why they call it a “Monster!” Hey Vee! Our Fredericksburg PEV group is growing. Would love to have you join our FB group and share with us there and hopefully meet up and do some group rides in the ‘Burg when the weather gets nice.

What scares me the most, is that GW has thrown in a new motherboard type, and from all photos i have seen until now, this only has 9 Mosfets instead of 12. if THAT is true...this is a HUGE step back. Beside the fact that this means more stress for the Mosfets, this is a kind of unequal providing Mosfets to the motorphases. First EUCS had only 6 Mosfets. 3 motorphases, each phase having 1 MOS in and 1 Mos out. 3 x 2. Actuall -powerful boards- have 12 Mosfets. 3 motorphase, each having 2 for in and 2 for out. (3 x 4). So with 9 Mosfets its not possible to have equal amount for In and Out of each phase. i guess they used 2 for IN and 1 for out. We will see how that will be stable in the long run. Looks like we are beta testers again ;-) As always, Vee, appreciate your videos! Good work!

Thanks a million for a wonderful review. It's a beautiful wheel. Doesn't it make you wish that there was a 24 inch Sherman SuperMax (wishful thinking)?

Speedy Feet was so disappointed in this model that he refuses to stock it or recommend it to anyone.

4:11 spin kill button on top of the wheel, I thought Gotway would learn from after installing a spin kill button on the left side of the MSP. 5:41 The trolly handle looks like a toy, it can't be taken seriously. 6:28 Smart idea. Gotway should have applied a voltage meter on the RS as well. 8:54 Hamming a bearing into place it's a lot work, and you need a Jaw Pulling tool to remove old bearings from the shell or cover. I doubt the Monster pro is going sell thst

Just like the old.msx.and.22 monster,which is a cruiser.wheel. you want toques get the msx/sheman. All wheel has pros and cons

That's crazy that they would use a rubberized like hammer for the bearings. Which means all the monster pro will have bearing issues down the road

Maybe a rubber mallet would work to install the bearings

Good shizz Vee!! If ever there was a wheel that’s impractical...

12:20 I’ve ridden my ESK8 there often!

For now though the Sherman is still king. I just uploaded a vid of the Sherman going over 40 MPH on sand at the beach. It's up on my channel. This EUC is crazy stable.

I can hardly believe Gotway hammers their bearings into the housings. They could literally heat the housing up to 250° in an oven and freeze the bearing and it will slip right in.

the carving has nothing to do with being light but with physics.. I know I mentioned my monster V2 and V3 with higher seat being like a sail in the wind but that's not the main reason the carving is hard is the centrifugal force of the wheel spinning. Larger the diameter harder it is to pull and push side to side.. .. at low speed no issue but at higher speed it becomes like a pendulum .. try to spin regular bike wheel at low speed and you will be able to move it left and right.. increase it by 50 or100% and you will see that when you move it will lock itself in that position for a bit.. now if you put a heavy tire on it, the effect with increase even more. There is no way around it.. especially on relatively thin wheel

It's a huge commuter wheel ,long range

I've never had my hands on either one but I would bet money on the Sherman being a far better product in terms of design, engineering and quality control. Gotway's frequently seem to be a product that are designed and built in some guys garage from off the shelf parts.

^^* good

no packet stealer with this weight!! you can leave it at the door UpS!!!! ive never ride a monster neither!

"Now, I've never ridden a Monster, and I barely rode this one (due to a known and addressed issue), but lemme tell you what I think..." 🤣🤣🤣

Have to say that if the wheel dies straight up ,no-one should touch it till its fixed and tested again.Dumping these things on the market and asking a fortune for a faulty product is heinous!

Why Gotway gotta be cheap with their bearings....🤷‍♂️

I would replace your own and put real ones in there that’s the prob they put junk bearings in there wheels

Wheel looks way off center

If you want to know the proper way to swap bearings without a press: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--W-GeIzWC-k.html

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21 minutes of wasted time. The video sucks, I don't recommend watching it. The author talks about nothing, did not show the wheel properly. This is not good for anything