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[Richard230]

Well it is fairly easy, but they have to deliver one first.

Yep. And I think it was exactly the same with the Zero Motorcycles. The riders get that type of info.

-Don-  Auburn, CA

And that is how H-D motorcycle horsepower is determined. Someone (typically a magazine road tester) put them on a rear wheel dyno and measured it.    Who knows why H-D does things other than they typically keep doing the same things over and over again.     Marketing the Livewire is going to be a education for the motor company. 

[Richard230]

Here is a long review of the LiveWire by Revzilla:  https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/2020-harley-davidson-livewire-first-ride

I note that they even mention the fact that H-D specifies the LiveWire's  peak power and they agree with my recollection that the motor company has never done that before.   

[Richard230]

Today the Harley circus was up at Alice's Restaurant, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of San Francisco, offering test rides of their big-twin lineup.  Needless to say I asked the H-D rep if they had a LiveWire to ride.  Not surprisingly he said that they didn't and that this function was only about their ICE models.  However, he did mention that a LiveWire test ride program was roving around at other locations of the U.S.  He thought that this weekend H-D was offering test rides of the LiveWire in Houston, TX.  Something to keep an eye out for just in case that LiveWire truck hits your neighborhood. 

[Richard230]

Here is another video review of the production 2020 LiveWire: 

and I bet there will be a lot more on the internet soon.   

And here is one more.  I find it interesting that the H-D staff person who was leading the magazine reviewers during the LiveWire's introduction in Portland, OR, was riding on one of their ICE big twin baggers and not a LiveWire: 

[alko]

That first video with the London guy had nothing good to say about the Zero SR he road a couple years ago. Teaspoon handles and useless brakes? What does that even mean? The brakes on my dsr are amazing!
Can't wait for a shootout between the SR/F and Livewire, but not by this gentleman!

[Richard230]

That first video with the London guy had nothing good to say about the Zero SR he road a couple years ago. Teaspoon handles and useless brakes? What does that even mean? The brakes on my dsr are amazing!
Can't wait for a shootout between the SR/F and Livewire, but not by this gentleman!

I agree. Perhaps he rode an earlier model Zero with the Fast Ace suspension and a Power Tank? Those comments would then make sense.