Speed Read, May 15, 2022
Meet the new LiveWire S2 Del Mar?a bike so hotly anticipated, the first 100 sold out in 18 minutes. Then peruse a tasty club style BMW R18 from California, a Kawasaki KLR from Colorado, and a race-ready Honda GB350 from Japan. We finish things off with a bonafide 1960s motorcycle safety video.
New LiveWire S2 Del Mar When Harley-Davidson branched LiveWire off into its own, electric-focused brand, we wondered how long it would be before we’d see them release a new model.
What you see here is the S2 Del Mar, the first all-new bike since LiveWire moved out of home. Based on the Advanced LiveWire ARROW Architecture, this all-electric street tracker looks like an absolute hoot. Developed in-house at LiveWire Labs in Mountain View, California, the ARROW Architecture is a scalable, modular system that will share the proprietary battery, motor, charging and control systems with future LiveWire releases.
The targeted output of the S2 Del Mar is 80 horsepower and they are aiming to keep the weight below 440lbs. Estimated 0-60mph is 3.5 seconds or less and the range around the city will be approximately 100 miles. Those figures have me so excited I can almost ignore how confusing I find the imperial units of measurement.
The striking paint job pictured is reserved for the first 100 Del Mar models, which will be released as numbered Launch Edition models. The front and rear 19? cast wheel designs are modelled after the intricate patterns found on printed circuit boards and ...
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