About

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 matching body/wheel colors, using tinfoil, re-used cardboard, candy wrappers and paint. It was first popularized by Oakland teen rappers known as "Trunk Boiz" on YouTube.

Origin

The term "scraper bike" was first coined by Tyrone Stephenson Jr., a 20 year old innovator and co-founder of the movement. According to NPR's coverage on the phenomenon, Tyrone originally sought to imitate the flashy custom designs of "scrapers", a local slang for old- school Buicks or Oldmobiles commonly spotted around Oakland, CA. Known as ground-zero of Hyphy music/movement, Oakland is also the hometown of Bubb Rubb and infamous whistle tips.

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