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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The Trusco Toolbox
The Trusco Toolbox is an unusual thing to find outside of a Japanese garage, the company is legendary in its native country but almost…
Benelli 750 Sei
The Benelli 750 Sei is one of the more interesting motorcycles developed during the 1970s – which is actually rather impressive considering just how…
The Original Driving Shoe
The Original Driving Shoe was created in 1963, when the Italian government awarded the designer Gianni Mostile a patent for an an entirely new type of shoe…
1985 Land Rover Defender 90 TDi
1985 was just the second year of production for the Land Rover Defender 90 model, it was closely related to the short wheelbase Land…
Spidi Ring Leather Jacket
The new Spidi Ring Leather Jacket is a throwback to the styling that was predominant in the 1970s – Although reassuringly it’s built to…
Lamborghini Countach LP400S Series I
It isn’t commonly known that the first production Lamborghini Countach ever made was shipped to a customer all the way over in Australia, this…
Old School MX Gloves by Reign VMW
The team at Reign VMW only recently released this new glove, they’ve called it the “Old School MX Glove” due to its retro design…
American Stock: The Golden Era Of NASCAR – Part 3
This is the 3rd and final instalment of American Stock: The Golden Era Of NASCAR, if you missed the first 2 parts you can…
The Bolt Safe
Keeping a hidden stash of money handy in case of emergency is something most of us do in our cars and/or motorcycles, the obvious…
1973 Honda CB350 Cafe Racer
The Honda CB350 is one of the most important motorcycles that Honda ever made, everyone knows about the importance of the Honda CB750 but…
Lancia Rally Tee by Cars for a Cure
Cars for a Cure is a relatively new apparel brand by Mason Watson, he established the company shortly after losing his mother to breast cancer…
BMW R100GS Scrambler by La Manufacture
The BMW R100GS was first produced in 1987, along with the other GS (Gelände/Straße) BMWs it was one of the original dual-sport motorcycles and was…