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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Stylemartin R Retro Motorcycle Boot
Stylemartin produce some of the best looking retro motorcycle boots money can buy, they seem to have found a niche where they build boots with modern safety elements inside a vintage design, largely aimed at people who ride classic motorcycles.
Ducati 450 Desmo Corsa
This 1970 Ducati 450 Desmo ‘Corsa’ is one of the phenomenal vintage motorcycles being offered up from the private collection of former Ducati factory test-rider and…
Boeing Flying Fortress Cutaway
The B-17 Boeing Flying Fortress was notorious amongst the German Luftwaffe during the second world war, it’s ability to withstand staggering levels of damage and stay airborne still circulate over 70 years later.
Blauer Pilot Orange
Blauer isn’t a helmet brand you encounter all that often outside of Europe, they make great lids though and tend towards the use of more advanced materials in their construction.
Ducati Meccanica
This is an old photograph of an old roadside Ducati pitstop, I’m not sure what the race in question was but I do like the fact that he seems to have almost an entire spare bike sitting in his wooden cases.
Anvil Tee by Iron & Resin
Iron & Resin is a Southern California based clothing label with an emphasis on comfortable gear that you’ll wear daily.
The Spacester by V-Twin Mechanic
The Spacester started life as a stock ’87 XL1200 Sportster before being acquired by Bernard ‘Buck’ Massart, the owner and lead engineer at V-Twin Mechanic, a French garage specialising in….V-Twins.
Apollo 11 Vintage Infographic
This beautiful, historical infographic-of-sorts was designed by NASA in 1967 to give the general public a better idea of what the Apollo 11 mission was actually going to do, from lift off to lunar landing to splash down in the Pacific.
2UnFold Laptop Bag by Hard Graft
There’s something reassuring about the fact that there are still companies like Hard Graft out there, designing and hand-making gear that just wouldn’t exist…
Hodaka Combat Wombat
The Hodaka company was a joint American/Japanese company founded in the 1960’s, they were largely credited with creating the trail bike niche and kicking off…
Clint Eastwood and his Austin Healey
The Austin Healey is a bit of an unusual choice for a Hollywood star, in the 60’s E-Types were exceedingly popular amongst the celluloid elite, as were Ferraris and drop top Mercedes.
Bombshell Tee by Fullbleed
Some say that the T-Shirt is the uniform of the 21st Century billionaire, they may be right, but it’s also the uniform of me so I’m always on the look out for unique, low volume designs to add to my overflowing collection.