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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Screamin’ Tee by Biltwell
Biltwell is a fantastic brand centred around moto culture, they’re based in California and sell a wide variety of custom motorcycle parts, gear, helmets and apparel.
Honda CB650 by Ugly Motorbikes
Ugly Motorbikes is a San Diego based custom motorcycle garage with a penchant for building exceedingly clean, light, classic café racers. This Honda CB650 is their latest creation, it’s been rebuilt from scratch into one of the more true to form cafe bikes we’ve seen in recent times and personally, I like it.
BMW R100/7 ‘Lucky 13’ by Blitz Motorcycles
They say good things come in threes, so with that in mind, here’s our third BMW motorcycle this week. Dubbed the ‘Lucky 13’ this BMW R100/7 is the latest build out of the garages of Blitz Motorcycles, a France based custom motorcycle garage with a penchant for cafe racers, scramblers and very unusual paint jobs.
Hot Rod Magazine
Hot Rod Magazine was established just after World War II in 1948 and has been publishing a monthly magazine dedicated to automotive tinkering non-stop since then. That’s a hell of a feat.
Crew Neck Jumper by Melanie James
The cashmere jumper (or “sweater” for our readers across the pond) is a fundamental wardrobe staple, it can be worn with jeans, cargos or a suit and has the added distinction of never, ever going out of style.
1929 Cord L-29 Special Coupe
This car, the 1929 Cord L-29 Special Coupe, is one of those motorised industrial design masterpieces that allows all people, regardless of their wheel-number-preference, to stand side by side with their mouths open. Before tentatively checking their wallets to see if they, by some miracle, have enough clams to bid on it.
Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli
Anyone who grew up in the ’60s, ’70s or ’80s and says they didn’t want to be just like Fonzi is either a liar, a miscreant or a woman. All these years later the “Fonzie Touch” is a still a popular term, used to describe the habit of hitting electrical equipment in order to make it work.
Brother Jacob Wallet by Deus Ex Machina
This leather and canvas wallet from Deus Ex Machina hits the clean-cut design nail squarely on the head and it’s…
Earl Grey by Urban Motor
Urban Motor is a relatively new garage based in Berlin, Germany. Headed up by a friendly chap by the name of Peter, Urban Motor has already produced 4 custom BMW motorcycles and 1 custom Moto Guzzi..
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is one of those films that defined a genre, it was released in 1969 and many people don’t know that it was actually written Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern.
Ellaspede Nationalist Tee
Many of you will remember Ellaspede for their custom Honda CB 350 that we featured here on Silodrome some months back, the bike picked up a huge amount of attention for it’s unique styling and well thought out, rider-friendly design.
BMW Café Racer by Team Incomplete
This bike, named the TI Boxer, was the result of an accident at 70mph on ice. The bike was utterly totalled with the only salvageable parts being the engine, wheels and forks. Using this as a base, the guys at Team Incomplete set about creating the most advanced BMW Café Racer we’ve ever seen.