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    HARLEY-DAVIDSON LIVEWIRE

    Sep 02, 2019 4 minutes
    WORDS JACK RIX

    I COULD START WITH THE NUMBERS.

    I could tell you about the range and recharging time, how many torques it has or scare you with the price. I could bore you to tears with why Harley’s engineers insist on calling the battery a Renewable Energy Storage System, or give you the marketing blurb on why the motor pulses like a heartbeat when you’re sitting at the lights. But honestly, who gives a monkey’s? If riding this bike – the first all-electric Harley-Davidson – doesn’t fire your synapses, drain your adrenal glands and leave you a quivering pile of emotion, then it’s doomed to failure.

    Which is why – in the name of good journalism – I find myself with the

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