Even though it was born from the world’s most prolific cruiser company, the all-electric LiveWire brand’s catalog has been curiously devoid of any cruisers… until now. Get a load of the new $15,999 LiveWire S2 Mulholland. LiveWire calls it an electric performance cruiser?which is fine, provided you’re happy to play fast and loose with the term ‘cruiser.’
Available immediately in North America, the LiveWire S2 Mulholland is the second electric motorcycle to use LiveWire’s S2 platform. It follows the S2 Del Mar, but trades the Del Mar’s street tracker style for a laid-back, cruiser-inspired layout.

To get that right, LiveWire raised the front end with longer forks, reduced the rear shock’s travel, and swapped out the Del Mar’s 19F/19R wheels for a 19F/17R combo. The Mulholland still wears alloy wheels with Brembo brakes, but trades its Showa suspension for Hitachi parts, offering full adjustability and 5.3 inches [135 mm] of travel up front, and preload and rebound adjustability with 2.9 [74 mm] inches of travel out back. It comes specced with Dunlop Sportmax Roadsmart IV tires, with a claimed lean angle of 55° and 50° on the left and right respectively. The seat dips to an accommodating height of 30.25 inches [768 mm], and the bars have been raised to create a knuckles-in-the-breeze riding position.

The muscular 6? bar risers and low-rise handlebars look great, as do the bar-end mirrors and the clever positi...