“I’m a big shot. Scraping on my bike. I don’t need a car gas price too high… Blue, yellow, orange wit bling, scraper bikes is on the scene.” That’s a line from a rap by Baybe Champ, the Scraper Bike ...

Showing off bike rims and wheels they’d tricked out with aluminum foil and colorful duct tape, kids hung out, listened to music, grabbed Halloween candy, and had a chance to meet the Scraper Bike King ...

In a city struggling with violence and misguided youth, Oakland, California’s Scraper Bike Project has done amazing work to give kids a positive outlet that promotes the green movement through ...

But when he rolled by me just off of N. Vancouver near Legacy Hospital the other day, it was his bike I noticed first. Gram says it’s a “scraper” bike (scrapers are the hot thing right now, as ...

Discover Tyrone Stevenson's journey as the "Scraper Bike King" in Oakland, empowering youth through creative cycling initiatives. Greenland lawmakers form a new government on the eve of Vance ...

OAKLAND — In a salute to Oakland’s scraper bikes, colorful circles resembling bicycle wheels now brighten the pavement in the median of 90th Avenue in East Oakland as part of a repaving and ...

This bike is really rusty and the paint's all scratched. Why are you so sure ladies are going to love this bicycle? Because scraper bikes are fly. I'd say they're drawn to the lowness, it's stylin ...

“I work at the Oakland Public Library, so he emailed some of the administration at the library and they told me,” said Original Scraper Bike's President Reggie Burnett. “And I was ...

Tyrone “Champ” Stevenson Jr., executive director of the Scraper Bike Team, is a key community leader in the pilot programs. The East Oakland native said he founded the collective — a group ...

are the ones pertaining specifically to Compton. The next big cultural reference is to scraper bikes, a fixture of Oakland, California, which grew out of lowrider car culture. In 2006, Tyrone ...

Stevenson wears a royal blue T-shirt and jeans to match his blue-framed bike — its wheels decorated ... the next best thing to having his own scraper-car — known in Oakland’s hyphy-style ...