knowing the market opportunities were endless for his fun, carefree design,
Steve secured a patent and began shopping his invention around to purveyors
of yachts and personal aircraft as a light, portable alternative transportation
device to extend owners transportation choices on land.
Beginning
in 1985 with a prototype for a new motorized personal transport device Steve Patmont
launched Patmont Motor Werks, creators of the Go-Ped, the original motorized scooter,
in his garage. He began by building Go-Peds only for friends and family that just
had to have one, and it blossomed from there.
