Reading time: less than a minute |
Written by Ben Branch |
January 4th 2017
The new Icon 1000 Retrograde Boots have styling that’s both a little retro, and a little futuristic. This makes them suitable for both modern and classic motorcyclists – a cross-genre capability that’s quite rare, while still offering excellent protection for feet and lower legs.
Each Retrograde has a full-grain leather upper, a slip resistant sole, a metal shin plate, cupsole construction, an axialmetric steel shank, an adjustable midfoot stabilizer strap, a rear zipper entry, and they’re CE certified to EN 13634:2016.
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.
This is the self-contained Fire Starter by Gerber Gear, it’s a cylinder that unscrews to reveal a ferrocerium rod, a metal striker, and water-resistant…
This is the Kasperi Black Fold-Top Backpack, it’s one of the Scandinavian company’s newer offerings, using their tried and tested design that was developed…
This is the Big Rock Candy Mountaineering El Cap Boot. It’s a classically-styled hiking boot that’s partially based on the French Varappe-style rock climbing…