Ben Branch
December 9, 2020
This highly unusual twin-engined Royal Enfield motorcycle was designed and built by Jimmy Enz of Lynwood, California in the late 1960s with one specific purpose in mind – to be the first man…
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Ben Branch
December 8, 2020
Editor’s Note: We don’t typically feature choppers on Silodrome as it’s not really our wheelhouse, however we do make exceptions to this every now and then for special bikes. For a brief time…
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Ben Branch
December 7, 2020
Giotto Bizzarrini famously developed the Iso Grifo A3C as an evolutionary descendent of a car he had designed a few short years prior – the Ferrari 250 GTO. Bizzarrini’s life reads like a…
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Ben Branch
December 7, 2020
The Simpson M50 helmet is a 21st century reissue of Simpson’s classic 1970s-style motorcycle helmets, but it’s now built to current DOT safety standards using modern materials and methods. Many motorcyclists who ride…
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Ben Branch
December 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: Some of you may have noticed that this is the third “expedition across the Americas” type documentary that we’ve featured in recent weeks. This may be due to Covid-related cabin fever, however each of…
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Ben Branch
December 5, 2020
The Norton Classic is one of the rarest motorcycles ever made by the storied British marque, just 100 were built and today they’re considered highly collectible both for their rarity, and for the…
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Ben Branch
December 5, 2020
This new t-shirt features the Silodrome logo over Japanese script that says “Gasoline Culture” – just 100 of these tees will be made, and the first batch is available for only 7 days….
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Ben Branch
December 4, 2020
The Chevrolet El Camino SS was the high performance version of the standard El Camino – a car that had been released in the 1959 model year to compete with the successful Ford…
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Ben Branch
December 4, 2020
This is the Suzuki GSX750S Katana 1:12 scale kit from Tamiya, it faithfully replicates one of the most important Suzuki motorcycles of all time – right down to the flip-up headlight. When the…
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Ben Branch
December 3, 2020
The Hesketh Vortan is a one-off prototype motorcycle developed by Hesketh engineer Mick Broom, it was intended to be built as a low volume production motorcycle – with plans to build just 14 of…
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Ben Branch
December 3, 2020
Freddie Mycock is a talented film photographer and automotive design student based just outside of London in England. He’s been photographing cars for years and he’s a well-known member of Britain’s highly-active automotive…
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Ben Branch
December 2, 2020
This is completely custom-built Citroën 2CV is a twin-engined four-wheel drive desert racer that was developed by Frenchman Jack Hanon to compete in the brutal Rallye de l’Atlas, a 1,800 mile race across…
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