LiveWire, the electrical bike model spun out of Harley-Davidson, has simply introduced its newest electrical bike mannequin. The brand new LiveWire S2 Alpanista is constructed on the identical platform because the model’s final two fashions, leveraging the Arrow platform as a flexible basis for a number of numerous bikes.
The Arrow platform first acquired its debut with the LiveWire S2 Del Mar, which was then adopted by the S2 Mulholland.
LiveWire introduced {that a} high-performance electrical maxi-scooter could be produced on the Arrow platform, however not earlier than the corporate rolled out the S2 Alpinista. “The Alpinista is LiveWire’s first sport normal,” defined the corporate, “geared up with 17” wheels and tires, mixing the very best of avenue, sport, and hyper-tourer traits.”
The not too long ago unveiled S2 Alpinista is mechanically fairly just like the 2 earlier fashions sharing the platform. The ten.5 kWh battery that serves as the primary construction of the bike will provide a most vary of 120 miles (193 km) per cost underneath metropolis using situations. It may be recharged with a Stage 2 charger from 20-80% in simply 1 hour and 20 minutes.
The 433 lb (196 kg) bike can obtain a 0-60 mph (0-96 km/h) time of simply 3.0 seconds, because of its highly effective 63 kW (84 hp) motor. The S2 Alpinista may attain an electronically restricted high velocity of 99 mph (159 km/h).
Priced at US $15,999 and already obtainable at LiveWire dealerships in North America and Europe, the S2 Alpinista formally turns into essentially the most reasonably priced LiveWire electrical bike obtainable so far, undercutting the $16,249 S2 Del Mar electrical avenue tracker and the $16,499 Mulholland electrical sport cruiser.
“Alpinista reimagines the S2 by combining the city agility of a supermoto with the do-it-all nature of a touring bike, making a sensible and thrilling sport normal,” defined the model.
The smaller 17″ wheels assist scale back the seat top of the bike, and mixed with the Dunlop Roadsmart IV tires, the street-optimized bike is right for “each every day commutes and spirited rides by winding roads.”
The S2 Alpinista comes with 6-axis IMU from Bosch offering cornering-enhanced antilock braking and cornering-enhanced traction management programs, along with 4 preset journey modes and two customized modes.
Now the third mannequin launched on the Arrow platform, the S2 Alpanista underscores the flexibility of LiveWire’s workhorse. The method was supposed to permit the e-motorcycle offshoot to rapidly innovate with a number of kinds of bikes all sharing key structural and drivetrain parts. The transfer has largely been seen as an engineering success, with three fashions hitting the highway in underneath three years. Nevertheless, gross sales have but to achieve targets set by LiveWire because the extra premium electrical bike business has skilled a rocky few years.
As a LiveWire S2 Del Mar proprietor myself, I can attest to each the efficiency and pleasant expertise of bikes constructed on the platform, although I do discover myself in a considerably smaller neighborhood than LiveWire had possible hoped for. With the backing of its highly effective older brother H-D, which retains a controlling stake within the firm, LiveWire has loved the relative freedom to cruise for its first few years and concentrate on bike growth and rollouts, with profitability hopefully coming over the horizon in due time.
