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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The Nostalgic Wall of Wheels Poster
The Nostalgic Wall of Wheels poster is a new design from Petrolified, an up-and-coming company that’ll be producing much more stuff in this general vein. As you may have noticed, the poster includes some…
BMW Custom by Blitz Motorcycles
This new BMW Custom by Blitz Motorcycles has been called the “French Bobber” and very much in the style of the team at Blitz – it looks like something that’ll make the purists wail,…
Megadeluxe T-Shirt
This new T-shirt from our friends over at Megadeluxe is a limited edition run to raise money for UNICEF to support its effort in the Philippines after the devastation caused by the super typhoon…
Gasolina Classic Motorcycle Boots
Gasolina Classic Motorcycle Boots are some of the best looking motorcycle boots you’ll find anywhere, they’ve been styled very closely after the footwear worn by men like Mike Hailwood and John Surtees during the…
Silodrome Singles: Foxygen – No Destruction
After a short hiatus we decided to bring back the Silodrome Singles series this week, it’s set to be a collection of music that we like – largely featuring slightly less famous bands from…
1977 Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser
The Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser is one of those iconic 4x4s that holds a place alongside the Willys Jeep and the Land Rover Series I in the hallowed, slightly muddy halls of the off-road…
Eton Hand Turbine AM/FM Radio with Smartphone Charger
When it comes to basic disaster preparedness, a unit like this Eton Hand Turbine AM/FM/Weatherband Radio is probably almost as important as shelter and potable water. This unit…
1933 Morgan Three-Wheeler
This 1933 Morgan Three-Wheeler is one of the nicer surviving examples of the early Morgans, it’s powered by a water-cooled Matchless engine with a capacity of 998cc and a horsepower rating of 32. This modest…
Woodsman Beard Oil by The Bearded Bastard
As we descend further into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, more and more of us are growing out something that resembles a beard, much to the chagrin of our lady folk. Woodsman Beard Oil…
1958 BMW 507 Series II Roadster
The BMW 507 Roadster is a car that was built by BMW between 1956 and 1959, despite its beauty the 507 almost bankrupted the company and by the time production ceased, only 252 had…
Astronauts in Sunglasses
It’s always surprising to me how many people don’t know that the American Optical sunglasses worn by the Gemini, Mercury and Apollo astronauts are still being made and can be bought for a rather…
The World’s First Two Wheeled Motorcycle Burnout
We have a deep and abiding love of engineering here at Silodrome, so when Gregor Halenda contacted me and mentioned that he and a small team had just finished building an AWD KTM 990…