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[Kovol2]

Has only one person received their bike? News seem really slow and nobody has yet to even review it.

[ultrarnr]

According to the Lightning Facebook page only one Strike has been delivered and that was on 8 September. Must be a very slow assembly line!!

[Crilly]

Like Harley’s.

[MVetter]

Except at least one LiveWire was delivered last week and another person is expecting his tomorrow. And people have publicly ridden and discussed their LiveWire experience.

[Crilly]

Where, Who?

[BrianTRice@gmail.com]

Where, Who?

Here's an enthusiastic Livewire test ride review in Lacey, WA:


I've interviewed local motorcyclists myself who've ridden Livewire demo bikes at dealers. The reviews are mixed, and I think HD dealers could tune the Livewire demos to be more appealing, but overall it's making a good impression (and then the price gates who actually buys really strongly).

I don't like that the Livewire went out to the Long Way Up crew before customers, and that they customized the bikes beyond their capabilities to fake being off-road bikes, but corporate-funded celebrity TV shows are all manner of fake already.

The Livewire is out there, mainly because HD can burn money like nobody's business. It's not elusive like a Lightning customer, whom I've never met in the few years I've lived in the SF Bay Area.

[MVetter]

Where, Who?

This guy in Washington State

[Crilly]

Yah, I have test ridden a couple.  But, I have seen one customer bike. Right Matt?

[HoodRichOG]

Yah, I have test ridden a couple.  But, I have seen one customer bike. Right Matt?

You've test ridden a couple of Lightning Strikes?

[Crilly]

Livewires

Mine coming around Christmas.

I donot ever expect to ever see a lightning strikes.

[Richard230]

Livewires

Mine coming around Christmas.

I donot ever expect to ever see a lightning strikes.

 

[HoodRichOG]

Gotta love that pic of all the blue Strikes being assembled at the so-called "factory".

Wonder what happened to them..

[mistasam]

For what it's worth, I texted the CEO back in August and he hasn't replied to me (he usually replied within a day or 2).  My other contact there was someone who would reply to emails within 2 hours, sometimes within 20 minutes) and I haven't heard back from him in 9 days.

The lack of updates and replies is concerning, not just that we're left in the dark about the production, but it's a bad sign for what customer service might be like in the future if your bike needed something.

They still have my deposit though, so I'm going to wait and hope for the best.

[Crilly]

I hope it was not the big deposit.

[mistasam]

Nah, just the $500.  It was still on the list for a Carbon, though.  It's a long story.

But that makes me wonder.. if this whole delay was because they couldn't get the 20kWh batteries imported, and the "first" Carbon Strike was sold with a 10kWh battery.. did they ever have the 20kWh pack?  How would they know the range and the weight of one if it never existed?  And if it did exist, why wasn't it sold in the first Carbon Strike?