The Black Odessa Boot by Chippewa is an American made boot with a Goodyear Welt sole, a full-grain American leather upper, a steel shank and a Vibram outsole. I like to feature Chippewa boots a few times a year as they’re one of the few boot manufacturers still making their wares by hand in the USA, from almost all American materials.
Articles that Ben has written have been covered on CNN, Popular Mechanics, Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, Autoweek Magazine, Wired Magazine, Autoblog, Gear Patrol, Jalopnik, The Verge, and many more.
Silodrome was founded by Ben back in 2010, in the years since the site has grown to become a world leader in the alternative and vintage motoring sector, with well over a million monthly readers from around the world and many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
