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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Leather Motorcycle Masks by Sunday Academy
This series of leather motorcycle masks by Sunday Academy are designed to kept debris and wind out of your face when riding at speed on the highway (or salt flats). The masks are designed…
Triumph Bonneville by British Customs
The modern Triumph Bonneville is a bike that can be taken apart and rebuilt into almost any style of motorcycle you can image, this flexibility is largely due to the huge after-market parts catalogue…
Wheels & Waves
Wheels & Waves is a new book by photographer Jo Fischer, it’s a compilation of her images from the 2013 and 2014 Wheels & Waves event, held in France each year. The book is…
Triumph TR7 Cutaway Wallpaper
The Triumph TR7 represented a paradigm shift in design for Triumph, construction began in late 1974 for early 1975 deliveries in the USA – where the car sold faster than the Brits could build…
Harley-Davidson Street 750 by TJ Moto
The Harley-Davidson Street 500 and 750 are broadly considered to be the two most important new models in recent memory from the 102 year old motorcycle manufacturer. The two mid-size bikes are largely targeted at…
Dainese Freeman Motorcycle Gloves
The Freeman Motorcycle Glove is a new release from Dainese, the venerable Italian motorcycle gear company that produces protective wear for riders at the MotoGP level on down. They were designed for casual riding so there’s…
Fifty Years of Kicks
Fifty Years of Kicks is one of those motorcycle documentaries that’s a must-watch – I know there are a lot of films out there in the motosphere, but this is one of the best…
Maserati 200SI
Maserati’s 200SI was a car developed with very large shoes to fill, it was to be the replacement for the popular and successful A6GC6, it would be driven by some of motor sport’s biggest…
Handmade Copper Money Clip
These handmade copper money clips are produced one at a time in the upstate New York workshop of Tommy Wolfe. Each clip is cut, filed, sanded, bent and polished by hand, and each is…
Mazda Cosmo 110S
The Mazda Cosmo 110S was the first rotary-engined car to roll out of the Japanese marque’s factory, it was dressed in a jet-age inspired body and in its one race outing it landed a…
JANE Riding Gloves
These new motorcycle gloves by JANE have been developed to offer as much comfort to the rider as possible, whilst also being highly effective should you ever find yourself heading toward the asphalt sans…
Honda CX500 by Ton-up Garage
The Honda CX500 is a motorcycle that’s seen a surge in popularity over the past few years, which is surprising really as it wasn’t a particularly popular model when it was released in 1978….