LiveWire redies S4 Honcho for EICMA debut
LiveWire is set to unveil the S4 Honcho to the public, a mini-bike that can be specced for road, trail and everything in between.
If you want to launch your electric bike brand into a segment that is doing better than most, the off-road and trail riding sector is possibly your safest bet. That seems to be the train of thought LiveWire has settled on, as its new S4 Honcho wants to take riders on and off the beaten track.
The bike was first noted at the beginning of September 2025, when the trademark “S4 Honcho” was filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. At the time, it wasn’t exactly clear what the bike would be, although going by LiveWires' nomenclature, it was sure to relate to a brand new platform from the Harley-Davidson-owned brand.
We didn’t quite expect this, though, a rugged little adventure mini-bike that is primarily aimed at commuters, off-road riders and outdoorsy-types.
The bike is about as simple as we’ve seen from LiveWire thus far, and features a simple tubular frame, with the battery suspended below it and the motor mounted beneath the battery.
Hard and fast specs for the bike aren’t known, although we can tell you that it comes in two configurations, Trail and Street. Trail is the off-road-only option, with chunky knobbly tyres, no headlight and long travel suspension. The Street is, as the name suggests, the road legal option, and boasts headlight, taillights and indicators, a TFT dash, road-biased tyres and a slightly different seat unit - going by the pictures.
Basically, all the other juicy info is withheld for now, although we can see just a single brake lever on the right handlebar, and no foot-operated brake in the conventional place. That leads us to believe that both variants of the bike will come with a Combined Braking System (CBS) that feeds brake pressure to both wheels at the same time. It’s also noted that the bike seems to use a removable battery system, with the seat lifting up to allow the double cells to be removed - it’s possible that this will be a feature of all future ‘S4’ bikes in the future.
Pricing and availability of the bikes are also unknown, although LiveWire does at least state that production is set to begin in spring 2026.
We’ll be at EICMA, and if we can dig up anything else on the bike, we’ll be sure to let you know.
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Simon (AKA Toad) has been working within the motorcycle industry for more than twelve years, and a member of the motorcyclist family since birth. Growing up around British-built single and twins, it was inevitable that a life on two wheels was on the cards, from a very early age!
