Welcome! Hope to see more of your feedback, questions and more!Hey everyone, new(ish) here.
I got my livewire a few weeks ago, but have been lurking here for a bit.
First bike, and loving it so far!
the EA code has to be obtained from the dealer.I’m also new here. Just took delivery a couple weeks ago. I was wondering if anyone is aware how to obtain the Electrify America activation code and if anyone knows the features in the Instrument Module software update 02.02.00 since my LiveWire was delivered with the version 1 software. H-D also shows a version 3 software for the LiveWire One but I’m unsure if that’s applicable to the 2020 model. Since the owners manual details the software update process should it be assumed that they intend this to be an owner applied update and a dealer isn’t necessary?
First bike ever. Currently I am riding mostly in eco and street, and sport mode scares me! My dad was the one test riding them for me. He's been riding for 40years, and his first hit in sport mode, he said it scared the life out of him, but subsequent rides he felt more confident on it. I've put a few hundred miles on it so far and my confidence on it has grown quite a bit. Still have only blipped it a few times in sport, which is exactly enough to know that I'm not ready for that!NoRemorse, your first bike ever is a Livewire? Wow! I hope you give yourself ample time at lower power and work into it. I've launched my Livewire from a light at 100% power, and I barely managed to bring it down bottoms down after 30 years of riding. I now ride at 80% power, unless on a highway. I'm too trigger-happy on my Livewire to keep it at 100%.
Congratulations!
Wise! Very wise!!
There are some crazy fast ICE motorcycles that have beaten the Livewire's quarter-mile time of 11.156 seconds. But very few bikes made are in that class. Up to around 110 mph, the Livewire is a rocket.
Glad to hear your dad is involved, as I took a motorcycle safety class some 20 years into riding, and the old school guys teaching had plenty to share. Aside from yelling at me while racing around the test/training track (lapping others in the class), it was great. And I think it amused the old school guys watching me take a Buell and ride it like a Kawasaki Ninja H2R. The Buell was no Livewire; it was closer to a pedal bicycle.
Glad to hear you're working into the Livewire. I did. Might say I still am. Mine's outside my office even now.![]()
Same here, former auto engineer myself, and my wife is actually a lead electrification engineer at an auto maker, so I totally get it.You're spot on. The bikes with sub 10 sec times were around 140-150 mph at the end of the quarter mile. If the Livewire were captured on high speed film at 100 mph, I wonder where the "faster" bikes would be?
I still hold that the Harley engineers were surprised when they finally made a Livewire and tested it. I suspect some were even shocked. I'm an engineer and calculations are great. But things are different when the "rubber meets the road."