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.
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Belstaff Whitwood 2.0 Short Boots – Buffalo Leather Motorcycle Boots
The Belstaff Whitwood 2.0 Short Boots are made from a water-repellent, full-grain buffalo leather (1.4 to 1.6 mm thick) designed to offer maximum protection…
Honda Monkey Bike Cafe Racer by Utopeia Moto Company
This fantastic Honda monkey bike cafe racer is the work of Chris Tope, the one-man-band behind the up and coming Utopeia Moto Company. Utopeia…
Torque – Road-Testing the 1974 Holden LH Torana with Peter Wherrett
The television show Torque was an Australian institution, watched religiously by petrolheads in the country throughout the 1970s. The show was presented by Peter…
Triumph Speed Triple Custom by Metalbike Garage
This Triumph Speed Triple custom is quite unlike any other custom Triumph we’ve seen in recent memory. As you may have guessed it’s the…
Poet Motors Magnetic Motorcycle Tank Bag – Stash Your Stuff While Riding
Motorcycle tank bags are an incredibly useful thing, using a series of ultra-strong neodymium magnets on the underside they latch on to your steel…
Randy Grubb’s Latest Creation – The Magic Bus
Randy Grubb is a custom car and motorcycle builder perhaps best known for being the man who built Jay Leno’s Tank Car. Grubb’s garage…
Documentary: The Red Grifo – A Must-Watch Film
The Red Grifo is a remarkable 20 minute long documentary about the incredibly rare and much-loved Iso Grifo, an Italian sports GT car that…
Bell Eliminator Carbon Helmet – A Strong, Lightweight 6K Carbon Fiber Shell
As the name implies, the new Bell Eliminator Carbon Helmet has a shell made from 6K carbon fiber, offering exceptional strength and a much…
The Only One Ever Made – The 1968 Serenissima Ghia GT
The Serenissima Ghia GT is a one-off design penned by the great Tom Tjaarda, and conceived by Count Giovanni Volpi di Misurata and Alejandro…
Documentary: Go Grandriders – 17 Riders Aged 80+ On A 1,178km Road Trip
Go Grandriders is a documentary that follows a group of larger-than-life motorcyclists in their 80s as they ride around the island of Taiwan, covering…
Mazda RX-7 – The Twin-Turbo Rotary Powerhouse
The Mazda RX-7 is an immensely popular Japanese sports car that’s entirely unique among its contemporaries due to one key fact – it was…
Feel: My Story – The Freddie Spencer Autobiography
Feel: My Story is the autobiography of motorcycle racing legend “Fast” Freddie Spencer. When it comes to the autobiographies of racing drivers (and riders)…