Start Them Young

She hasn’t yet learned to ride a motorcycle, but 11-year-old Alexis Neill has just completed building her first custom Harley-Davidson. Working alongside her papaw, Roger Wilson, the pair from Granite Falls, North Carolina, took two years to resurrect a tired 1994 Sportster 883. That means she was just nine years old when the project started.

Prior to this build, Alexis says she’d “helped service the lawnmower, and I’d worked a bit on my four-wheeler. After that, I just wanted to build something.” The “something” arrived in the form of the Sportster, a bike that had once belonged to a friend of Wilson’s. It had sat unridden for many years, and, at one point, a barn had