Harley-Davidson’s electrical motorbike model LiveWire continues to be as much as its driving leathers in its second electrical motorbike mannequin, the LiveWire S2 Del Mar. However whilst the corporate is pushing out deliveries of that bike, new leaked particulars are already revealing design details about the corporate’s subsequent mannequin. And it could simply be the extra comfy cruiser that so many have been ready for.
I hear it on a regular basis, “Why aren’t there any electrical cruiser bikes?”
If there have been, it’d make sense for Harley-Davidson to be the one to make it occur. And it’s beginning to appear like that might be the case.
Whereas bare bikes, typically referred to as roadsters, characteristic a modestly tucked experience with rear-set foot pegs, cruiser bikes have a tendency to supply a extra relaxed experience with decrease saddles and extra forward-mounted pegs and even platforms. And people simply could also be options discovered on the subsequent LiveWire motorbike.
That data involves us because of some sleuthing by Bike.com’s Dennis Chung, who helped us get our first take a look at new particulars concerning a second mannequin constructed on LiveWire’s Arrow platform.
The Arrow platform was at all times anticipated to have a multimodel future. Its design features a structural battery that enables main {hardware} to be constructed across the similar platform, leading to completely different kinds of electrical bikes that share the identical primary guts (i.e., batteries, motors, and controllers).
Whereas the S2 Del Mar that’s at the moment making deliveries is extra of a unadorned road bike with flat tracker roots, new particulars present that the subsequent mannequin on the platform is probably going to attract from a extra cruiser-styled heritage.
Harley-Davidson filed emblems for the bike this yr that counsel it will likely be referred to as the S2 Mulholland. Simply because the S2 Del Mar bike received its title from the Del Mar Flat Observe Races, the S2 Mulholland possible attracts inspiration from LA’s well-known Mulholland Drive, a curvy highway that has develop into a favourite amongst native and visiting road riders. I took the unique Harley-Davidson LiveWire motorbike down that very highway a number of years in the past after I first reviewed the bike.
Harley-Davidson has lent credence to that naming theme after it was found that the S2 Del Mar’s service guide contains references to a different mannequin codified as “S2MH,” whereas the S2 Del Mar has its personal “S2DM” abbreviation in Harley-Davidson’s service guide.
However it might take greater than a twisty freeway moniker to make LiveWire’s subsequent bike a cruiser. Additional exhausting proof for a extra relaxed experience comes from the bike’s saddle peak and wheelbase, each of which have been revealed as a part of the Harley’s service guide. The Mulholland’s saddle peak of 30.25 inches is shorter than the Del Mar’s 30.9-inch seat peak, although solely barely. It seems to have a in another way formed saddle as properly.
The wheelbase of the Mulholland is stretched in comparison with the Del Mar’s, which may imply a slacker rake angle for the entrance fork or an extended chassis, permitting a extra relaxed driving posture.
As fascinating as a full-on electrical cruiser might be, these modifications may additionally simply be minor modifications in a motorbike that could be extra structurally much like the S2 Del Mar. At this level, it’s simply too quickly to inform.
However with a 2024 mannequin yr listed for the upcoming “S2MH,” we may study extra particulars before we predict. A 2024 reveal can be possible, so be certain to maintain checking again right here for updates.
Till then, let’s hear your ideas. Would you be occupied with an electrical cruiser motorbike? Pontificate within the remark part beneath!
