Harley-Davidson LiveWire Review and Ride

Welcome to Ride & Rally with Fix My Hog. What's up everybody? I'm Nate Beck and you're watching Fix My Hog. In 2019, Harley-Davidson released LiveWire, their first all electric motorcycle and they've been talking about doing so for quite some time. Now, still many years later, if you go into a Harley-Davidson dealership, you're not guaranteed they're gonna have one there. Late last year, Harley-Davidson actually rebranded LiveWire into its own division of Harley-Davidson and they kicked off by sending the LiveWire truck around with demo models. There's one in town right now, so I'm gonna hop on my internal combustion Harley, head on down there, and go check out to see what the LiveWire is all about. I'm getting a little bit of a whine from the motor, but besides that, it's virtually silent. The actual riding position is a lot more like a sport bike, you know, than a cruiser. My legs are tucked up underneath me. My weight is definitely forward. The handlebars feel a little bit wide I think. For my personal preference, but I'm used to riding really narrow bars, so that might just be me. Now there is regen which charges the battery or help keep it charges how they explain it to me and it feels like an engine brake actually. So you can see I'm letting off and it's automatically stopping. I'm not applying any break. It's crazy how quiet it is. It's the ultimate lazy man's fight. Got nothing to do. Dude, I find myself wanting to clutch it. I go up to a stop and I'm just like, oh, there's nothing there. This hand feels neglected. Right? The weight, the balance on it is real nice though. Really nice. It's not top, like sporters are super top heavy. Yeah, it's, It's not. It feels like a Tesla. Yeah. All that heaviness is down at the bottom. At the bottom yeah. It just gives it a real nice like settled feeling. Yeah. What I think would be nice about this regen is that you know, as you're hitting twisties, you don't really have to brake. You just let off the brah a little bit and the bike is automatically slowing you down. So, and it's slowing you down at a nice rate. It's not jerky or weird, it's like a, just a consistent like you know, like just about what I break anyways, you know. It's, yes, they have to figure out the range but man this is a great start. Yeah, 'cause what's the, I think the range is like what, 136, 140? Well they say 120. Okay. But my buddy who owns one typically gets about 70. 70. Yeah. I can't get it home. I can't get it home. And I think the technology will improve on that. Oh absolutely. I mean it's still so fresh. You know, while I am a fan of the cruisers obviously and I am a big fan of internal combustion. There isn't really a reason why Harley shouldn't be doing this. I mean, it's got a niche, it's a fantastic start. The bike feels great, it's fast. Yeah, that's screaming. And it just, they just need to work on that range and you're there. And the price, they gotta work on the price a bit. It's a little expensive. But it's, I'm enjoying this way more as such a fan of internal combustion. I'm enjoying this way more than I thought I would. What a crazy experience riding an all electric bike and it being a Harley-Davidson. Harley is so synonymous with thundering down the road, big brash, loud American bikes. And being on a virtually silent bike besides the whirr. And you can hear that even the tires on the road is a really unique experience. Now I was kind of concerned that the bike might feel a little cheap, weak. But that's not the case at all. The bike feels insanely solid. It feels great around turns. Honestly, I would like to take canyon carving but they do need to work on getting that miles a little bit up. I do live out in the sticks a little bit and it's hard to get around with just, you know 70 to a 100 miles. But as Yoke and the CEO of Harley now said these are issues you'll have to work through. Some company has to do it so it might as well be Harley-Davidson. They're off to a fantastic start with the LiveWire as it is and I can't wait to stay posted to see what happens next with LiveWire. That's it folks, for today. Until next time, ride safe, rent safe. We'll see you down the road.