diff --git a/misc/buildbot/builder/builder.go b/misc/buildbot/builder/builder.go
index e07823005..9570e8a7c 100644
--- a/misc/buildbot/builder/builder.go
+++ b/misc/buildbot/builder/builder.go
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ const (
 	interval           = 60 * time.Second // polling frequency
 	warmup             = 30 * time.Second // duration before we test if devcam server has started properly
 	camlistoredTimeOut = time.Minute      // how long we try to dial camlistored after warmup
+	go1BaseURL         = "https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/"
+	go1Tarball         = "go1.4.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
+	go1URL             = go1BaseURL + go1Tarball
 )
 
 var (
@@ -64,8 +67,8 @@ var (
 	host           = flag.String("host", "0.0.0.0:8081", "listening hostname and port")
 	masterHosts    = flag.String("masterhosts", "localhost:8080", "listening hostname and port of the master bots, i.e where to send the test suite reports. Comma separated list.")
 	ourOS          = flag.String("os", "", "The OS we report the master(s). Defaults to runtime.GOOS.")
-	skipGo1Build   = flag.Bool("skipgo1build", false, "skip initial go1 build, for debugging and quickly going to the next steps.")
-	skip           = flag.String("skip", "", "Test suite to skip. Valid values are \"go1\", \"gotip\", or \"all\".")
+	skipGo1Build   = flag.Bool("skipgo1build", true, "skip initial go1 build, for debugging and quickly going to the next steps.")
+	skip           = flag.String("skip", "gotip", "Test suite to skip. Valid values are \"go1\", \"gotip\", or \"all\".")
 	verbose        = flag.Bool("verbose", false, "print what's going on")
 	skipTLSCheck   = flag.Bool("skiptlscheck", false, "accept any certificate presented by server when uploading results.")
 	taskLifespan   = flag.Int("timeout", 600, "Lifespan (in seconds) for each task run by this builder, after which the task automatically terminates. 0 or negative means infinite.")
@@ -99,6 +102,8 @@ var (
 
 var devcamBin = filepath.Join("bin", "devcam")
 var (
+	fetchGo1Cmd        = newTask("wget", go1URL)
+	untarGo1Cmd        = newTask("tar", "xzf", go1Tarball)
 	hgCloneGo1Cmd      = newTask("hg", "clone", "-u", "release", "https://code.google.com/p/go")
 	hgCloneGoTipCmd    = newTask("hg", "clone", "-u", "tip", "https://code.google.com/p/go")
 	hgPullCmd          = newTask("hg", "pull")
@@ -530,25 +535,23 @@ func setup() {
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Problem with Go tip dir: %v", err)
 	}
-	for _, goDir := range []string{go1Dir, goTipDir} {
-		// if go dirs exist, just reuse them
-		if _, err := os.Stat(goDir); err != nil {
-			if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-				log.Fatalf("Could not stat %v: %v", goDir, err)
-			}
-			// go1/gotip dir not here, let's clone it.
-			hgCloneCmd := hgCloneGo1Cmd
-			if goDir == goTipDir {
-				hgCloneCmd = hgCloneGoTipCmd
-			}
-			tsk := newTask(hgCloneCmd.Program, hgCloneCmd.Args...)
-			tsk.hidden = true
-			if _, err := tsk.run(); err != nil {
-				log.Fatalf("Could not hg clone %v: %v", goDir, err)
-			}
-			if err := os.Rename("go", goDir); err != nil {
-				log.Fatalf("Could not rename go dir into %v: %v", goDir, err)
-			}
+	// if go1 dir exist, just reuse it
+	if _, err := os.Stat(go1Dir); err != nil {
+		if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			log.Fatalf("Could not stat %v: %v", go1Dir, err)
+		}
+		tsk := newTaskFrom(fetchGo1Cmd)
+		tsk.hidden = true
+		if _, err := tsk.run(); err != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("Could not git clone %v: %v", go1URL, err)
+		}
+		tsk = newTaskFrom(untarGo1Cmd)
+		tsk.hidden = true
+		if _, err := tsk.run(); err != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("Could not untar %v: %v", go1Tarball, err)
+		}
+		if err := os.Rename("go", go1Dir); err != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("Could not rename go dir into %v: %v", go1Dir, err)
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -588,6 +591,7 @@ func setup() {
 }
 
 func buildGo1() error {
+	return errors.New("building Go1 from source not supported anymore, use -skipgo1build")
 	if err := os.Chdir(filepath.Join(go1Dir, "src")); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Could not cd to %v: %v", go1Dir, err)
 	}
@@ -623,6 +627,11 @@ func handleSignals() {
 var plausibleHashRx = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-f0-9]{40}$`)
 
 func prepGoTipTree() error {
+	// Doing go tip disabled as of 20140126, because we'd need to fix the hg->git change,
+	// and deal with go 1.4 bootstrapping. Not worth the trouble since we're going to
+	// redo the bot soon with gomote and buildlet.
+	goTipHash = "Disabled"
+	return nil
 	if err := os.Chdir(goTipDir); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Could not cd to %v: %v", goTipDir, err)
 	}
@@ -651,6 +660,8 @@ func prepGoTipTree() error {
 }
 
 func buildGoTip() error {
+	// not building go tip anymore
+	return nil
 	srcDir := filepath.Join(goTipDir, "src")
 	if err := os.Chdir(srcDir); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("Could not cd to %v: %v", srcDir, err)
@@ -720,6 +731,10 @@ func switchGo(goDir string) {
 	if runtime.GOOS == "plan9" {
 		panic("plan 9 not unsupported")
 	}
+	if goDir == goTipDir {
+		// not doing gotip anymore
+		return
+	}
 	gobin := filepath.Join(goDir, "bin", "go")
 	if _, err := os.Stat(gobin); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Could not stat 'go' bin at %q: %v", gobin, err)
diff --git a/misc/buildbot/master/master.go b/misc/buildbot/master/master.go
index 3ea83f0bb..d37e34d95 100644
--- a/misc/buildbot/master/master.go
+++ b/misc/buildbot/master/master.go
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import (
 	"crypto/sha1"
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"html/template"
@@ -419,7 +420,9 @@ func main() {
 	}()
 	setup()
 
+	goTipHash = "Disabled"
 	for {
+
 		if err := pollGoChange(); err != nil {
 			log.Print(err)
 			goto Sleep
@@ -474,20 +477,9 @@ func setup() {
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	// if gotip dir exist, just reuse it
-	if _, err := os.Stat(goTipDir); err != nil {
-		if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			log.Fatalf("Could not stat %v: %v", goTipDir, err)
-		}
-		if _, err := hgCloneGoTipCmd.run(); err != nil {
-			log.Fatalf("Could not hg clone %v: %v", goTipDir, err)
-		}
-		if err := os.Rename("go", goTipDir); err != nil {
-			log.Fatalf("Could not rename go dir into %v: %v", goTipDir, err)
-		}
-	}
 
 	if _, err := exec.LookPath("go"); err != nil {
+		log.Fatal("Fetching go tip is not supported anymore. Just setup Go manually (in $PATH) for the master to build the builder.")
 		// Go was not found on this machine, but we've already
 		// downloaded gotip anyway, so let's install it and
 		// use it to build the builder bot.
@@ -545,6 +537,7 @@ func setup() {
 }
 
 func buildGo() error {
+	return errors.New("Building go tip not supported anymore")
 	if err := os.Chdir(filepath.Join(goTipDir, "src")); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Could not cd to %v: %v", goTipDir, err)
 	}
@@ -580,6 +573,10 @@ func handleSignals() {
 }
 
 func pollGoChange() error {
+	// pollGoChange disabled as of 20140126, because we'd need to fix the hg->git change,
+	// and deal with go 1.4 bootstrapping. Not worth the trouble since we're going to
+	// redo the bot soon with gomote and buildlet.
+	return nil
 	doBuildGo = false
 	if err := os.Chdir(goTipDir); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Could not cd to %v: %v", goTipDir, err)
@@ -1185,14 +1182,14 @@ var statusHTML = `
 	<th>{{$report.OSArch}}</th>
 	<th colspan="1">Go tip hash</th>
 	<th colspan="1">Camli HEAD hash</th>
-	<th colspan="1">Go1</th>
+	<th colspan="1">Go1.4.1</th>
 	<th colspan="1">Gotip</th>
 	</tr>
 	{{if $report.Progress}}
 		<tr class="commit">
 			<td class="hash">{{$report.Progress.Start}}</td>
 			<td class="hash">
-				<a href="{{goRepoURL $report.Progress.GoHash}}">{{shortHash $report.Progress.GoHash}}</a>
+				Disabled
 			</td>
 			<td class="hash">
 				<a href="{{camliRepoURL $report.Progress.CamliHash}}">{{shortHash $report.Progress.CamliHash}}</a>
@@ -1207,7 +1204,7 @@ var statusHTML = `
 			<tr class="commit">
 				<td class="hash">{{$bits.Go1.Start}}</td>
 				<td class="hash">
-					<a href="{{goRepoURL $bits.Go1.GoHash}}">{{shortHash $bits.Go1.GoHash}}</a>
+					Disabled
 				</td>
 				<td class="hash">
 					<a href="{{camliRepoURL $bits.Go1.CamliHash}}">{{shortHash $bits.Go1.CamliHash}}</a>
@@ -1221,11 +1218,7 @@ var statusHTML = `
 				</td>
 				<td class="result">
 				{{if $bits.GoTip}}
-					{{if $bits.GoTip.Err}}
-						<a href="` + failPrefix + `{{$report.OSArch}}/gotip/{{$bits.GoTip.Start}}" class="fail">fail</a>
-					{{else}}
-						<a href="` + okPrefix + `{{$report.OSArch}}/gotip/{{$bits.GoTip.Start}}" class="ok">ok</a>
-					{{end}}
+					Disabled
 				{{else}}
 					<a href="` + currentPrefix + `" class="ok">In progress</a>
 				{{end}}
@@ -1253,7 +1246,7 @@ var testSuiteHTML = `
 	<body>
 	{{range $ts := .BiTs}}
 		{{if $ts}}
-		<h2> Testsuite for {{if $ts.IsTip}}Go tip{{else}}Go 1{{end}} at {{$ts.Start}} </h2>
+		<h2> Testsuite for {{if $ts.IsTip}}Go tip{{else}}Go 1.4.1{{end}} at {{$ts.Start}} </h2>
 		<table class="build">
 		<colgroup class="col-result" span="1"></colgroup>
 		<colgroup class="col-result" span="1"></colgroup>