This is the first glimpse the world caught of the Lamborghini Miura, the car was unveiled at the Geneva Motorshow in 1966 to rapturous applause and has stood as a testament to the phenomenal automotive engineering talent of Lamborghini’s three top engineers, Bob Wallace, Gian Paolo Dallara and Paolo Stanzani.
When it comes to iconic motorcycles, this one is always near the top of the list. The Honda CB750 Racing Type (also referred to…
We’ve decided to combine the top 11 features of 2011 onto a single page, partially because we have many readers now that we didn’t have at the start of the year, partially because 2011 has an 11 at the end of it, but mostly because we all love the film This Is Spinal Tap.
There’s a lot to be said for bare metal, on this particular bike for example, I can’t imagine any paint job looking batter than that brushed steel fuel tank and seat cowl.
I thought it’d be a good idea to share this photograph of an old Indian motorcycle store and garage, it’s been the desktop wallpaper on my Mac for the past couple of months and never seems to get old.
These retro motorcycle gloves by Roland Sands Design are a great of fresh air compared to the usual offerings in the motorcycle glove department. They have padded knuckles, a velcro/stud wrist fastener, a padded palm and are available now.
It isn’t often that an all original Indian Boardtrack racing motorcycle comes up for sale, there are a number of restored Indian boardtrackers out…
Bill Milliken is an astonishingly talented engineer, by the age of 19 he had already designed, built, flown and crashed his own aircraft, his fascination for machinery continued right through to the current day – he’s still alive and kicking at the age of 100.
Though not inline with our usual features we talked about this film a great deal and decided that anyone who appreciates the intricate engineering and sense of history that goes into vintage motorcycles and automobiles will be touched by this wonderful short film by Tom Wrigglesworth and Mathieu Cuvelier.
Silodrome will be updating every single day without fail over the Christmas/New Years period so if you find yourself suffering through inane babble at yet another Christmas party, come hang out with us on the inter tubes. We’re always happy to see you and all we ever want to talk about is oily motorcycles, noisy automobiles and dapper duds.
Raven MotoCycles is a boutique custom motorcycle garage run by Jeff Gundlach, the overall design employed by Raven clearly harks back to the glory days of the Brough Superior and early Sunbeam models with perhaps a little boardtracker styling thrown in for good measure.
Jackie Stewart is one of the most famous and successful Formula 1 drivers to ever grace a circuit with his presence. He led the call in the 60’s and 70’s to make F1 a safer sport and had a number of near fatal accidents himself along the way.
