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Written by Ben Branch |
December 15th 2011
Dime City Cycles is a Florida based one stop shop for anyone building custom motorcycles, be it a café racer, a flat-tracker or a bobber, DCC will generally have the parts you’re looking for.
This film, titled “Moving Westward”, is a short by Brandon Schrichten depicting the crew from DCC at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah having a great time riding vintage motorcycles, kicking up a little sodium and making me wish I lived a little closer to a lake bed.
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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