Article By: Lullabelle Rose
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tacy’s mom has got it goin’ on…” and so does this bike for its creator Joshua DeBenedetto it also won Best of Show for the Dennis Kirk Garage Build July thru December 2021 contest. TwentyNine-year-old Josh is the owner/ operator of JD Motorcycle Repair in Greenville, SC. DeBenedetto had his first motorcycle experience younger than most. As a baby, Josh’s dad would strap the toddler to himself so he could take Josh for motorcycle rides! At just age two, Josh was on his first bicycle, then just six years later, he was piloting dirtbikes. For the next ten years, DeBenedetto raced motocross. Motorcycling was in his blood. When Josh
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retired from racing at 18, he started wrenching on motorcycles and finally got his first street bike, a 1996 Honda Shadow 600. DeBenedetto also got his first Harley-Davidson when he was eighteen, a 1977 Shovelhead that was a hot mess that he used the Honda Shadow as a downpayment for. It was also the beginning of the motorcycle that you’re looking at right now. When he first got the Shovel, the charging system was so bad that he kept a BatteryTender on the bike so he could plug it in every time he stopped. Man, that’s dedication and an excellent education. Which is precisely what he hoped for when he made the investment. He wanted to
