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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Kawasaki W650 Hardtail by Deus
The Kawasaki W650 is a motorcycle that’s found a loving home in Australia, the classic looks combined with modern reliability make it very nearly the perfect motorcycle for those who want an engine bolted…
American Felling Axe
The American Felling Axe by Best Made Co. is a wood chopper for those who are slightly more serious about cutting logs than your average weekend camper. Each of these axes has a drop…
1973 Ferrari Dino 246GT
The Ferrari Dino 246GT was the second major model iteration in the Dino family, it addressed the complaints that had been made in some circles about the lack of power produced by the original…
Historic Racing Cars by ScheningCreative
This series of historic racing cars is a collection of prints by Arthur Schening of ScheningCreative, there are 21 in the series and I’ve only included 8 in this post so be sure to take…
When Playboys Ruled The World
When Playboys Ruled The World is a documentary about Barry Sheene and James Hunt – two of the most iconic racers of the ’70s and ’80s. Hunt was a Formula 1 driver and Barry Sheene…
Mainline Coffee Cup
The coffee cup is a thing that delivers one of the most important fluids ever created to my face, as a result of this I consider them to be very important. There’s a lot more…
Jaguar E-Type Series 1½ Roadster
The Jaguar E-Type you see here is a Series 1½ and as such, it’s a bit of an anomaly – it’s a Series 1 with many of the internal updates from the Series 2…
Terrain Pannier
The Terrain Pannier is the result of a collaboration between Iron and Resin & Sons of Trade, it’s designed to fit to most older motorcycles (and older-styled motorcycles) – specifically bikes with a single…
REV’IT! Brera Jacket
The new REV’IT! Brera is motorcycle jacket for those of us who live in cooler climates – especially as the weather slowly shifts from autumn to into winter. It’s styled to resemble a classic bomber jacket…
Triumph Bonneville Scrambler
Usually when we feature a custom motorcycle the builder of the bike goes to great lengths to stress how many parts of the bike were hand-fabricated – So it was interesting to get an…
Watch Roll by Convoy Goods
Convoy Goods is a small company that specialises in hand-making leather goods using traditional methods, although it looks like the kind of small workshop you might find in Brooklyn, Richmond or Portland they’re actually…
Ducati Scrambler
The long rumoured Ducati Scrambler was unveiled by the Italian motorcycle manufacturer at INTERMOT in Germany yesterday, this is a bike we’ve been hearing about for years although as it turns out – none…