Dust Moto

[Erwin P]

That's indeed true.

But so close to production i think that ship has sailed.

Edit: But hey even with things going pretty bad at team HD the sums om money they can play with are enormous compared to what a startup can dream of.
Might be just the injection they need and just bring the numbers Livewire needs. Now place some landmines and loitering drones to off each and every HD manager that thinks about setting foot in the direction of this company.

 

[F451]

The old HD kiss of death for Dust, bummer.

 

[Beagle]

What's more likely:

buying Dust will save Livewire from bankruptcy
or
being bought by Livewire will end Dust

?

Hold on, Livewire sales are on fire, +176% in Q1 26 compared to Q1 25. That's right, they've sold 91 motorcycles in the first 3 months this year, which is a terrific improvement from 33 sales last year. Imagine that, selling as much as 1 motorcycle every day, oh the glory.

Wishing the best for Dust guys, just not convinced it's going with Livewire, hopefully they prove me wrong.

 

[Redwolf]

RIP Dust Moto

 

[Johnny Depp]

B2B News | LiveWire has made its first-ever acquisition, snapping up the assets of Dust Moto to push deeper into the electric off-road segment. LiveWire says the deal accelerates its ambitions beyond the tarmac, building on a journey it traces back to its STACYC kids’ balance bike brand a decade ago.
With Dust Moto now folded in, LiveWire is moving the startup’s electric dirt bike platform toward production, backed by its own engineering resources, manufacturing scale, and global sales and service network. More at THE PACK: https://thepack.news/newsflash-livewire-group-acquires.../

 

[Chaconne]

I don't think any American company will be able to make a go with Electric Motorcycles of any kind. It is not an accident that Stark is actually making a go of it and Alta with many years head start ended up dead.

The US does not have a motorcycle culture. Motorcycles are not considered part of transportation they are considered recreational vehicles and are not part of the general American transportation fabric. They are either outlaw, fad, toy, or sub-culture. And even Harley was never really a mainstream product or real transportation. Stark is steeped in the European tradition of motorcycle culture and Europeans have good use cases, distance models, and a motorcycle culture to grow Electric Motorcycles.

Most of us here in the US who are into motorcycles besides Harley are used to Asian and European purpose built products. Also the uptake of American E-cars has mostly stalled out if not died in many cases across the country. The American producers just didn't make anything but over priced E-Yuppie vehicles that were more like a fad-badge than transportation. Given that, my guess is that Dust Moto will like end up Alta more like Dust Bin Moto.