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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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.
1964 Jaguar E Type
The Jaguar E-Type is a classic car amongst classic cars, originally released in 1961 the car quite literally blew away everyone who saw it. Perhaps the most enduring accolade came from Enzo Ferrari who famously called it “The most beautiful car ever made”.
Carga Bags
Carga Bags was started in 2006 by Argentinean architect Mauro Bianucci, he was living in New York at the time and made the first Carga Bag as an experiment. The bag was given to a friend in the fashion world and through pure word of mouth, orders for the unique bags began to flood in.
The Akira Bike Project
The project has been picking up quite a bit of attention around the web, not least for the fact that Matus will build you your own Akira Bike if you pledge $10,000 to getting his concept off the ground.
Dot Smith
This is Dot Smith, the famous female stunt rider from the 1930s and 40s, she was a member of the San Francisco Motorcycle Club and a founding member of the iconic “Motor Maids” with Dot Robinson and Linda Degeau.
Sunday Cinema: The Kid Auto Race
https://youtu.be/hBkKtXs06zg?t=9 This film, named ‘Kid Auto Race‘, set a couple of significant milestones in cinema history. It was the first time the world ever…
The Magnificent Bastard by Icon 1000
This bike started life as a 1986 Honda VF1000R although it would have been hard to guess given the modifications to the bike. The lower fairings have been removed and the remaining body work has been sanded back and given and eye catching distressed paint job.