diff --git a/go/go.work b/go/go.work
index d533c6b8d1..7199ebcd1a 100644
--- a/go/go.work
+++ b/go/go.work
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-go 1.21
-
-toolchain go1.21.0
+go 1.18
 
 use (
 	./cli/mcap
diff --git a/go/ros/bag2mcap.go b/go/ros/bag2mcap.go
index cff812b279..6bbbf599a7 100644
--- a/go/ros/bag2mcap.go
+++ b/go/ros/bag2mcap.go
@@ -173,10 +173,6 @@ func processBag(
 			}
 		}
 
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
 		switch opcode[0] {
 		case OpBagHeader:
 			continue
diff --git a/go/ros/ros2db3_to_mcap.go b/go/ros/ros2db3_to_mcap.go
index 3bb4eade14..d03c5fe48c 100644
--- a/go/ros/ros2db3_to_mcap.go
+++ b/go/ros/ros2db3_to_mcap.go
@@ -319,10 +319,6 @@ func DB3ToMCAP(w io.Writer,
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("failed to write channel info: %w", err)
 		}
-
-		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("failed to increment progress bar: %w", err)
-		}
 	}
 	seq := make(map[uint16]uint32)
 	err = transformMessages(db, func(rows *sql.Rows) error {
diff --git a/testdata/db3/chatter.mcap b/testdata/db3/chatter.mcap
deleted file mode 100644
index 575a996b77..0000000000
--- a/testdata/db3/chatter.mcap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:80d78a9fb3637e467e2c65abc3a6fcf0e7d9e9a20d6a4134356789f8fb8a5d7b
-size 1738