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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Ducati 900SS by Old Empire Motorcycles
The Ducati 900SS is a motorcycle that’s rapidly becoming a bit of a modern classic, custom bike builders have been discovering the raw mechanical…
Ace Watch by Martenero
Martenero is a small New York-based watchmaking company that specialises in creating very clean timepieces designed for legibility and versatility, each of their watches…
An Original Austin-Healey 100S
The Austin-Healey 100S was a sports model personally developed by Donald Healey with an aluminium body, no soft top, a perspex windscreen, no overdrive…
Red Wing Heritage Blacksmith Boots
The Blacksmith Boots by Red Wing have been in production in one way or another for 108 years, they’re constructed to be as resilient as possible…
Motorcycle Jacket by Deus x Barbour
The Euripides Quilted Motorcycle Jacket is the result of a new collaboration between Deus Ex Machina and Barbour, aimed at bringing the 120 year…
1985 St. Petersburg Can-Am Race
The 1985 St. Petersburg Can Am race was the first and only Can-Am event held at the street circuit, the staggering amount of noise…
On Any Sunday Poster by Rustle of Silk
It’s been 43 years since Bruce Brown released his film On Any Sunday, it’s hard to know if he had any inkling how significant…
1989 Lamborghini LM002
I’ve always suspected that the Lamborghini LM002 was created in the ’80s by a design team headed by Schwarzenegger and Stallone with additional input…
Coyote Aviator Hat by Canada Goose
The Aviator Hat by Canada Goose was originally designed to be worn by pilots in the formative days of fixed wing flight, when cockpits…
Suzuki GN125 by Dream Wheels Heritage
Portugal recently updated their licensing laws to allow anyone with a standard car license to ride a motorcycle or scooter up to 125cc in…
1963 Leica M3
The Leica M3 is considered by many to be the single greatest non-SLR camera ever made, and many more consider it the greatest camera…
Yamaha XV950 by Marcus Walz
Since the beginning of the Yamaha Yard Built program we’ve seen a surprisingly diverse array of motorcycles developed by custom bike builders from all…