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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Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual
The Apollo 13 Owners’ Workshop Manual is one of the most detailed and reader-friendly books about the Apollo 13 mission currently in print. It’s the work of David Baker – a veteran of the…
Yamaha XV950 Custom
The new Yamaha XV950 is a motorcycle designed to target the fast growing mid-size cruiser segment, Yamaha released the model in 2013 and it’s quickly found a strong foothold for itself not just in…
Hip Flasks by Iron & Glory
Iron & Glory is a relatively new company based out of Brooklyn in New York City, the brand puts a strong emphasis on low-volume handmade gear and their current range of hip flasks also…
AMA Flat Track Racing: Jay Springsteen
AMA’S Flat Track Racing Young Matadors: Jay Springsteen is an vintage documentary about one of the most successful and beloved flat track racers of all time. Springsteen began racing professionally in 1975 and convincingly…
Belstaff Esses Gloves
The Belstaff Esses Glove is a new release from the historic British motorcycle gear manufacturer for 2015. Far from being just another good-looking glove with no real protection built-in, the Esses glove has flexible…
1963 Shelby AC Cobra
Carroll Shelby’s AC Cobra is almost certainly one of the most famous cars of the 20th century and it’s undoubtably the most copied car of all time. Anyone can tell you that the AC…
Automotive Art by Andrew McGeachy
Andrew McGeachy is a native of Scotland who has lived in Switzerland for the past 24 years, his art is known for being emotive and highly effective at capturing the speed and chaos of…
BMW R75/5 by Ton-Up Garage
This BMW R75/5 by the team at Ton-Up Garage is a good illustration of the new movement towards restomodding motorcycles without necessarily customising them into cafe racers, scramblers, bobbers, flat trackers or any other…
Kevlar Denim Motorcycle Jacket
Simon James Cathcart is a designer on a mission to bring what is arguably the best denim in the world (Japanese ring-spun selvedge denim) to the western world, with clothing cut to suit western…
Honda CB550F SuperSport
The Honda CB550F SuperSport is a motorcycle that’s lived in the shadow of its larger sibling, the CB750F, for the past 40 years. Despite the fame of the CB750 and its reputation as being…
Morgan Motor Company: This Is How We Do It
Morgan Motor Company: This Is How We Do It is a new film from the storied British automobile marque that showcases their painstaking and almost entirely hand-based production line. It’s well-known that Morgan uses…
Brough Superior SS100 Alpine Grand Sports
Known as the Rolls-Royce of motorcycles, Brough Superior was a British marque famous for two things: speed and luxury. The model you see here is the SS100 ‘Alpine Grand Sports’, it was the fastest…