ABOUT JOY

Joy is known to many in the motorcycling community. Some know Joy as the woman on the drill team, or the women who competes in Top Gun competitions. Some know Joy as the woman who teaches others to pick up a motorcycle. And, still others know Joy as the woman who founded the nation’s first traffic violator school dedicated to motorcyclists. Regardless of how they know Joy, everyone knows that Joy is an avid motorcycle advocate with a true passion for riding.

Joy Medved, author, researcher, educator, and founding owner of Joy of Motorcycling, shares more than 21 years of experience with the motorcycling community. Since earning her motorcycle license more than two decades ago, Joy has ridden close to 400,000 miles. She especially loves long distance road trips and is currently working her way riding through all of the country’s national parks.

What’s life without a little competition? For Joy, there’s nothing like the challenge of preparing for a drill team show or Top Gun competition to polish her skills. In addition to riding for competition, Joy also spent several years as a uniformed motorcycle escort officer.

Joy is also credited with being the first and only person ever to author a traffic violator school licensed by the State of California dedicated to motorcyclists. The school “Joy of Motorcycling Traffic School” was well received, but changes to California’s State laws lead to the school’s closure the end of 2006.

In addition to being a riding member of the motorcycling community, Joy is also a motorcycling educator, having authored and taught numerous training seminars for riding clubs and organizations. Some of Joy’s seminars and guest speaker topics include:  handling hazards, preventing traffic tickets, lane-sharing, crash management, and group riding. One of Joy’s most requested guest speaker topics is her famous hands-on bike pick-up demonstration, during which she encourages women from the audience to come up and demonstrate how easy it is to pick up her 1,000 pound motorcycle.

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Combining her love of motorcycling with her experience in training, instructional design, writing and research, Joy is currently developing a new line of publications and training seminars with the goal of providing the riding community with useful, accurate and reliable resources and services necessary to help them achieve their own motorcycling goals. After more than two decades of riding under her boots, Joy is also excited to be finishing up her first motorcycling book, which is slated to be published sometime next year.

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