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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MicroShiner Magazine
MicroShiner Magazine is a relatively new quarterly magazine dedicated to craft distilleries and low volume spirits – as you may have noticed, the name…
Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA Coupé
The Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA Coupé is the lightweight version of the more common Giulia Sprint GT. The additional “A” in the name…
Evel Knievel Poster
With all of the stunning imagery provided by the long career of Evel Knievel we sometimes forget that he had a habit of coming out…
Stories of Bike – Two Cities: Part 2
As many regular readers of Silodrome will know, I have a bit of a soft spot for the Stories of Bike series by Cam Elkins….
1934 MG Magnette Racing Special
This 1934 MG Magnette ND/NE Racing Special has a fascinating history – it was built and sold to W E C Watkinson, a recognised…
WWII in Colour – The Air War
WWII in Colour – The Air War is a one and a half hour documentary covering the use of aircraft throughout the Second World War,…
BMW R100RS Flat Tracker
The BMW R100RS is a motorcycle that was never really intended to be anything other than a grand tourer, the bike was fitted with…
Penton: The John Penton Story
Penton: The John Penton Story is an upcoming film due to be screened at the NYC Motorcycle Film Festival (September 24th to the 27th in Brooklyn), the…
1969 Ford Cortina Lotus Mk 2
The Ford Cortina Lotus Mk 2 was the successor to the highly acclaimed Lotus Cortina Mk 1 – a small British car that had…
E-Type Poster by Petrolified
Petrolified is a one-man operation run by Martin Miskolci, he made a name for himself with a poster design last year called the “Wall of…
The T-Dub Ski by Big Woodski
The first few hundred years of ski development took place on rudimentary wooden planks that were slowly shaped via trial and error into the form…
BMW Monolever Cafe Racer by Barn Luck
Barn Luck is a relatively new custom motorcycle garage that specialises in finding old motorcycles in sheds, garages, barns and sheds – then rebuilding…