Gas Monkey Garage turns LiveWire Alpinista into a custom chopper
Is this custom LiveWire chopper the wildest-looking bike of 2026?
Gas Monkey Garage has revealed one of the most radical bikes of 2026, and certainly one of the most visually striking.
The bike is based on a LiveWire, so immediately, you know it’s an electric motor powering it. Specifically, the LiveWire Alpinista is used as the base for this particular bike, which is about as visually distant from ‘EV’ as it gets.
That’s because this – with its practically horizontal front girders – is a full custom-style chopper. We suppose that, in that way, the bike is representative of the kind of cultural juxtaposition that is LiveWire; a company that started out as the electric off-shoot of Harley-Davidson – a manufacturer that sits more on the bald eagle, Chevy Camaro, shoot-a-deer side of what we see as the American cultural spectrum than the tech bro side that is more commonly associated with electric motorcycles, or electric vehicles in general.
Either way, this LiveWire-based chopper is one of the most visually stunning motorcycles we’ve seen, we just can’t work out if it’s stunningly gorgeous or stunningly revolting.
Perhaps it’s the desire to be slightly understated that lives in us Brits here at Visordown, but the chopper thing in general is a bit brash for our taste, and that’s before you get to the chrome – and, oh my, is there chrome. The wheels are chrome, the bodywork is chrome – about the only things that aren’t chrome are the tyres… Well, apart from the hulking great battery at the middle of the whole thing, whose matte-black casing is delightfully plastic-looking.
Even if you think the thing is nice to look at, though (and each to their own), you surely can’t agree it looks good to ride. Those ridiculously narrow bars make it look almost impossible to balance at low speed, and surely can’t feel the most secure at road speeds. Then, when you want to slow down, the front design means you only have a rear brake – which must create some, er, fun situations.
Not that this bike was ever really meant for riding, it was meant to be looked at, which it was at the Mama Tried motorcycle show in February where Gas Monkey Garage unveiled it.
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