AMA’S Flat Track Racing Young Matadors: Jay Springsteen is an vintage documentary about one of the most successful and beloved flat track racers of all time. Springsteen began racing professionally in 1975 and convincingly won the AMA Rookie of the Year award. He went on to confound the field and win three back-to-back AMA Grand National Championships in ’76, ’77, and ’78.
By the time he retired in 2003 Jay Springsteen had 43 Grand National Championship dirt track victories under his belt, 9 years before his retirement a group of 30 flat track racing experts gathered by American Motorcyclist chose Springsteen as the single greatest flat track racer in the history of the sport.
Ben Branch has had his work featured on CNN, Popular Mechanics, the official Smithsonian Magazine, Road & Track Magazine, the official Pinterest blog, the official eBay Motors blog, BuzzFeed, 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 millions of readers around the world and hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
Neon White Rose Gasoline signs could be seen on highways and byways coast to coast in the early to mid-20th century. The White Rose trademark belonged to The National Refining Company located in Cleveland, Ohio….
This is the first Apollo 3500 GT Spider that was ever built, just 5 Spider versions of the Apollo 3500 GT would be made in total, and this is the only one with the…
The Aether Expedition Jacket was developed by the Californian team at Aether specifically to be a 21st century, all-weather motorcycle expedition jacket. Aether was founded in 2009 by Palmer West and Jonah Smith with the…
Fichtel & Sachs decided to call their first Wankel engine motorcycle the Hercules W2000 and they showed the prototype at the 1970 West Cologne Autumn Motorcycle Show: that prototype featuring a shaft drive and four speed gearbox from a BMW R27 that would not be used on the production model.
The Snow Cruiser – Antarctica’s Abandoned Behemoth is a short documentary that gives a concise history of one of the most unusual land-based vehicles ever built. The film uses a combination of archive video footage…
Before you get out the pitchforks and flaming torches let me put your minds at ease – no vintage Mongoose Californian BMX bikes were harmed in the production of the motorized bike you see before…
