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Unusual Motorcycle Design: Bandit9’s Gorgeous Odyssey

Bandit9 is a bespoke motorcycle design/build firm that makes no bones about where their inspiration comes from: “Sci-fi films and comics,” the company writes. Take a look at their latest creation, the Odyssey:

Bandit9 brings you to the edge of motorcycle design. By bending time, space and reality. To explore an unknown future. To inspire and to advance. By ignoring convention, tradition and the voices that hinder progress.

Fearless in design. Perfect in craft. The Odyssey’s iconic form steals your gaze and seduces you to ride. The Odyssey is the signature Bandit9; a leap into the future of motorcycles.

The unibody is made from 904L steel, the seat with memory foam covered in Italian leather, and performance components from aeronautic materials designed for competition. All machined with precision down to nanometers.

If you’re wondering how the rider doesn’t just slide off, the memory foam seat depresses under his or her weight.

The company is only making nine of these, on commission. So yes, this is one of those “If you have to ask how much it costs, you probably can’t afford it” vehicles.

http://www.core77.com/posts/71432/Unusual-Motorcycle-Design-Bandit9s-Gorgeous-Odyssey