Articles that Ben Branch 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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“King” Kenny Roberts’ Yamaha OW72 Flat Track Racer
The Yamaha OW72 looks remarkably similar to the Yamaha XS650 on which it’s based, but this similarity hides a staggering amount of engineering that was poured into the OW72 by the Americans, Australians, and…
Salty Old Bastard Flask
The Salty Old Bastard Flask is the work of The Sneerwell, a company based out of Denver, Colorado with a unique line of products. Each flask is made from long-lasting stainless steel with a…
1973 Triumph X-75 Hurricane
Historically speaking, the Triumph X-75 Hurricane is a genuinely significant motorcycle. Just 1,200 or so were built before production ended in 1973 due to new noise restrictions in the USA, but the styling of…
Bulb Keo Nixie Tube Clock
The Bulb Keo is a modern nixie tube clock powered by USB and capable of displaying the time, date, temperature, and of acting as an alarm clock. The glass bulbs are made individually by…
Fuel Motorcycles Moto Guzzi V65 TT
The Moto Guzzi V65 TT was released in 1984 as a competitor of sorts for the all-conquering BMW R80 G/S, the engineering team at Moto Guzzi were operating under the tight fist of Alejandro…
Short Film: ‘Morgan & I’ – Mr P. Gutteridge
Morgan & I is a short film about Pete Gutteridge, a Morgan owner since 1952 – when he bought a shed full of parts that had once been an original Morgan 3-Wheeler. As an…
Harley-Davidson Big Twins – The Flathead
The Flathead is one of the most important early Big Twins built by Harley-Davidson, this is its story. Introduction With the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and the resulting Great Depression, Harley-Davidson had…
GrowlerWerks uKeg
The GrowlerWerks uKeg is a beer container and dispenser developed for serious home brewers and those who want to ensure their favourite tipple is on hand, at the right temperature, and at the right pressure. This is…
Ford Design Film: Styling and the Experimental Car
Styling and the Experimental Car is a Ford film from 1964 that shows the future design direction of the company. One of the designs bares more than a passing resemblance to the ill-fated Mustang II,…
James May’s Yamaha SR400
The Deus Grievous Angel is a Deus Ex Machine-built Yamaha SR400 that’s had a significant influence on the custom scene both in its native Australia and further afield in the USA and Europe. It was…
The Walt Siegl Leggero GTS
Walt Siegl is one of those rare custom motorcycle builders who you wish you could place in the head designer position at a marque like Ducati or Harley-Davidson. The motorcycles that roll out of his…
Saint Model 1 Unbreakable Motorcycle Jeans
The new Saint Model 1 motorcycle jeans are the first in the world to use a single-layer of abrasion resistant material – rather than the twin-layer denim/Kevlar designs usually employed. This was made possibly…