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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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…
Vintage Motorcycle Boots by Gasolina
Boots are an essential piece of gear for any motorcyclist, they need to be strong enough to handle an inglorious dismount at 80mph but…
8th Attempt by Darizt Design
Darizt Design is a small scale Indonesian motorcycle garage that has been attracting a significant amount of international attention. They specialise in utilising bikes…
Land Rover Defender X-Tech
The Land Rover Defender X-Tech was unveiled at the Brussels Motor Show in January, it’s a step up from the current generation Defender in the luxury…
Original, Unrestored 1974 Ducati 750 Sport
It isn’t often that you see a Ducati 750 Sport up for sale, especially not one with only 893 miles on the odometer in…
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter from all of us here at Silodrome, we hope you all have a great long weekend and don’t over indulge on those…
Ducati 750SS / Monkee #20 by The Wrenchmonkees
The Wrenchmonkees are one of the most aesthetically tasteful and unique custom motorcycle builders in the world today, when you see a new Wrenchmonkees…
The Coolest Woman Ever
We’ve hunted around for the story behind this image to no avail. She is clearly drifting a heavy bike across dirt with one hand…