Written by Marlon Slack
In the 1950?s people had a glassy-eyed vision of the coming millennium. They imagined a  jumpsuit-clad future propelled by sleek, metallic, rocket-shaped cars and bikes to zoom around in. But now we?re here now, and somehow we ended up with the Ford Taurus and the Yamaha TDM. It?s not fair. But Singapore?s Bandit9 aim to change that with their latest build, the Honda-based L?Concept, a motorcycle that blends retro futurism with incredible design engineering.

The L?Concept is the next logical step for Bandit9, who have produced some of the most awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, genre-bending bikes that we?ve featured here on Pipeburn. If you?ve missed their prior work they?re so named because they produce a limited run of nine motorcycles of each of their designs. Their output is exclusive and always different. And the L?Concept is no exception.
?It?s loosely based around a 1967 Honda SuperSport,? founder and head designer Daryl Villanueva says, ?Now it?s a 2067 Supersport?. The L?Concept is a tribute to Daryl and his team?s love of sci-fi films and books. ?It wasn?t about building something futuristic or creating the next thing,? he says, ?It was about bringing to life something you?d only see in the pages of comics or in an episode of Star Trek.?

But that look doesn?t come easily. The initial design of the L?Concept actually began two years ago, with Daryl penning the outline and realising that their skillset wasn?t strong enough to make it a realit...