YouTube has spawned many sudden sensations. 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 ...

At 5 p.m. on Halloween, as most Bay Area elementary school students were putting the finishing touches on costumes or plotting trick-or-treat routes, a group of 20 fourth- and fifth-graders were ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- 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. Called ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Click here if you’re unable to view the photo gallery on your mobile device. OAKLAND — In a salute to Oakland’s scraper bikes, colorful circles resembling bicycle wheels now brighten the pavement in ...