{"id":760,"date":"2024-12-08T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2024-12-08T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T16:02:24","slug":"young-restorers-alexis-and-kayleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hog.thecreativeplot.com\/mx\/young-restorers-alexis-and-kayleigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Young restorers Alexis and Kayleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meet Alexis and Kayleigh, young sisters who kickstarted their love of motorcycles by each restoring a Sportster <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Alexis Neill and her sister Kayleigh Greene are too young to legally ride motorcycles, but that hasn\u2019t stopped either of them from restoring bikes of their own. Thirteen-year-old Alexis started working on her 1994 H-D Sportster when she was just nine. Two years later, when it was finished, she asked her grandfather if they could find another bike to restore for her then-six-year-old sister, Kayleigh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their grandparents both ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles, so it\u2019s only natural that Alexis wanted to help when her grandpa bought the non-running 1994 H-D Sportster. \u201cIt had sat in a building and got tarnished up and hadn\u2019t been messed with for a couple of years,\u201d explains her grandfather, Roger Wilson of Granite Falls, North Carolina.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the job\u201d training for Alexis began right away. \u201cShe came into this helping me with the small pieces, then it got to the point where she wanted to do more,\u201d says Roger, who estimates that Alexis did 80 percent of the work restoring the Sportster. \u201cI just kind of stepped out of the way and basically said, you want to build it, you build it. At first, she was helping me, but by the time it was over I was helping her.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over the next 28 months, Alexis spent much of her free time working on the Sportster. \u201cMost of it she picked up on her own as we went along. There was a lot of stuff that I even had questions about, but then she introduced me to Google, which told us how to do a lot of stuff.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the big jobs, Roger had a mechanic friend help out. \u201cIt was very, very few things,\u201d he explains. \u201cLike rebuilding the transmission and anything that had to have certain settings that we couldn\u2019t figure out.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their project attracted a lot of attention, turning Alexis into something of a local celebrity. \u201cIt was the talk of the town around here,\u201d Roger proudly says. \u201cI actually went to the doctor, and a lady stopped me and asked if I have the granddaughter who restored the Harley-Davidson!\u201d Their local dealership \u2013 H-D of Asheville, NC \u2013 did a photo shoot with Alexis, presenting her with a certificate commemorating her accomplishment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finished with her own bike, Alexis and her grandfather looked for another for young Kayleigh to restore. They found a similar, non-running \u201994 Sportster, and the three of them got started. Roger says Kayleigh did most of the work on her bike, with Alexis helping out as needed and Roger supervising. <\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cI guarantee you\u2019re not gonna find another grandpa who\u2019s prouder than me. They just basically proved to me that there was nothing that I could do that they couldn\u2019t do just as good.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sisters have an upcoming photo shoot scheduled with members of the military, highway patrol, and other first responders to honor all fallen first responders. \u201cIt\u2019s turned out to be a pretty big deal,\u201d Roger says. And people have even called asking if the two sisters could work on their motorcycles, a request Roger declined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Alexis and Kayleigh are looking forward to riding together when they\u2019re old enough, and there\u2019s no doubt these two young ladies are going places. Here\u2019s wishing them many safe miles and lots of smiles in their future motorcycling endeavors! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words by Glen Abbott <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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