A scraper bike is a bicycle that has been modified by its owner, often with decorated spokes with matching body and wheel colors, using tinfoil, re-used cardboard, candy wrappers and paint. …

1 day ago · The Scraper Bike Team empowers urban youth living in underserved communities through self-expression and creativity. We encourage youth entrepreneurship and promote …

This unique styled bicycle phenomenon has umpired into a global movement, due to its music video: ‘Scraper Bikes’ that went viral on YouTube with over 3 million views worldwide. The …

Dec 22, 2014 · The trend takes a cue from the customized car scene (they’re called “scraper bikes” after scraper cars—the ones that have rims so oversized they scrape the inside of the …

Nov 18, 2022 · -- At the height of the hyphy movement, Tyrone "Champ" Stevenson along with his friends and family, pioneered colorful bike designs resembling Oakland's iconic scraper cars. …

Nov 2, 2023 · “The Scraper Bike team helps show people that biking is safe for them to do: they model it, and that’s important in East Oakland,” says Brytanee Brown, an Oakland urban …

Dec 15, 2024 · Scraper Bike is an emerging custom bike trend in the San Francisco Bay Area that typically involves tricking out ordinary bicycle spokes with candy-colored pinwheels and …

I had a couple of ideas for making scraper wheels that i haven't seen anyone else doing, and i decided to make a few wheels to test my ideas. This step shows how to make a wheel using …

We start by helping elementary schoolers gain confidence on bikes, through a free 6-week after-school program. In partnership with the Oakland Parks, Recreation and Youth Development’s …

Tyrone Stevenson, better known as Baybe Champ, is East Oakland's "Scraper Bike King." Back in 2007, he and his cousin Avery Pittman started the Original Scraper Bike Team, teaching …

Nov 22, 2022 · Explore Oakland's Scraper Bike Way & Movement. Learn how Stevenson & the Original Scraper Bike Team empower youth in underserved communities.

Sep 13, 2008 · Take scraper bikes, for example. A music video about the tricked-out bicycles posted to the site by some teenagers in Oakland, Calif., has attracted a cult following, with …

Scraper Bikes—defined by the Urban Dictionary as “a customized bicycle featuring oversized wheels, foil-encased spokes, and a spray-painted frame”— have become tremendously …

Jul 1, 2009 · Oakland teenagers pioneer Scraper Bike style, promoting green transportation and raising awareness and unity against gun violence in their neighborhoods. By Amy Walker. …

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Reginald Keith Burnette Jr, better known as Chef Boy R.B., has been riding anything with wheels since age 4 and, as it turns out, cycling has become his route to changing his community, one …

Scraper Bikes are beautiful, modified bicycles, typically recognizable by bright, customized spokes. The scraper bike movement was started by Tyrone Stevenson, Jr. in East Oakland in …

A scraper bike is a bicycle that has been modified by its owner, often with decorated spokes with matching body and wheel colors, using tinfoil, re-used cardboard, candy wrappers and paint. …

Nov 2, 2023 · Scraper bikes looked like cars and I wanted a car, so the second-best thing was a bike.” The bikes soon became a quintessential Oakland culture all their own. In 2007, when he …

Jan 2, 2009 · Scraper bikes began as low-budget analogs to the colorful, big-rimmed cars–also called scrapers–often seen cruising around east Oakland. Tricked-out scavenged frames with …