I thought maybe an introduction was in order after seeing a couple of comments in an older post referring to me. Yes, I am the "Joyce" of designbyjoyce.com and have fan sites for most of the American Chopper guys. It started as and still is a hobby and first began with a Mikey site. At the time (about 2004 I think) there were a couple of fan sites for Paul Jr and one for Vinnie but none for Mikey, the lovable goof on the show. The other sites didn't last and I continued to add pages/sites for the other guys. It was a way of learning HTML.
As for the comment that my "info came from a closer source than just a casual observer"? Nope. I have no real connection to any of the guys. The closest person I've met is Ed Avery of XrossRoadz Promotionz when he was in AZ with the Wounded Warriors bike. I'm just good at using Google searches, Google alerts, press releases, and I follow the guys on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Call it "playing detective" maybe. For example, after a "mystery photo" was posted I saw a tweet between Vinnie and Cre8Play which lead me to do some searching and figured out Jr and Cre8Play were working together. Another time I knew Jr was attending the Walmart annual shareholder's meeting and found some photos posted by an attendee. Jr had taken the Cadillac bike there to display (before it appeared on the show) and pictures surfaced. (I did get an email from Rachael asking me to remove the photo from my site until the show aired, which I did.) Another time I knew Ed was transporting something to San Diego and I figured out that time coincided with ComicCon, which was a big clue.
Another comment was that I had "access to the type of photos you would see in a private family album." Nope. Everything I've found has been public, including family type photos from the wedding and holidays, etc - mostly from Facebook or Twitter.
I never thought the pages would be as popular as they are. If I had, I would have purchased actual domain names for the sites. Last December, for example, when the buildoff was going on Paul Jr's pages received over 308,000 pageviews. Last month was 67,000+ with the show off the air. So that's it in a nutshell. It's just a fun hobby and I look forward to the new shows with Jr and Sr and will continue to look for clues as to what the guys are building.
nice to meet you. you should get some appreciation from all the pages you have by the builders. you are doing more than they do for themselves as far as getting us easy access.
I have done plenty of sites towards celebrities and fans of celebrities that were actually celebrities themselves, I am glad you like doing it and hope you keep having fun at it. They should give you a link on this forum so we can click over to you.
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Welcome to the American Chopper and Politics forum, where you dont have the right to your opinion, but you have the right to be wrong.
Well as a person that visits this forum quite frequently. I have to thank you for al you do to keep us chopper fans informed an up to date on all things involving the teutul family as over the years watching them many of us feel that in some ways are a part of the enjoyment of watching gthe bikes get built, an follow in some part their relationship between father an sons.
Yes El.. People that don't wear Luca Libre masks an profess a ever dying fictional obsession to a character of a TV show, generally get email responses back from them.
