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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Ducati F1 Tracker by Marcus Moto Design
Sometimes a bike comes along stops you in your tracks and forces you to take a second look. This is one such bike. Created…
1925 Auto Races – Laurel, Maryland
Imagine a 1⅛-mile NASCAR track made entirely from wooden planks. It sounds insane but it’s how motor racing got started in the US. This…
Accelerant Perforated Jacket by Icon Motosports
Leather jackets and heat go together like politics and relatives. They really aren’t the best bedfellows. Icon is seeking to amend this problem by…
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé (W196)
The iconic Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR was based on the 1954-1955 Formula 1 Mercedes-Benz W196 race car, it used an advanced space-frame chassis and magnesium-alloy…
1964 Harley-Davidson XLR-TT
The Harley-Davidson XLR-TT roared onto the scene in 1958 and remained in low-volume production until 1969, depending on which experts you listen to,…
Machine Gun Motorcycle
In the days before optional ABS and wuss-o-rama-heated-grips they had optional sidecar mounted machine guns. The old days kick ass. I can’t help but…
1973 Lamborghini Urraco
For $17,750 USD this Lamborghini Urraco almost seems too good to be true, that said the Urraco is probably the most affordable member of…
Norton 650SS Slimline Featherbed
The Norton 650SS was produced between 1962 and 1967 and despite the fact that it was never as famous as the next Norton, the…
Yamasaki Print by Adam Stockton and Classified Moto
John Ryland is a remarkably talented bike builder, he discovered bikes later in life than most and is more than making up for lost…
’71 Honda CB450 by Holiday Customs
This is my kind of bike. No superfluous stickers, plastic body work or unnecessary chrome bullshit. Just a bike that’s fun to ride and…
Retro Full Face Helmets – The Guide
Buying a full face retro or vintage helmet to match your new retro café racer is harder than actually building the café racer in…
Datsun 240Z Cutaway Drawing by Shin Yoshikawa
Well-drawn cutaways are always mindblowing to me. The sense of perspective and innate engineering knowledge required to produce something like this from scratch is…