Scraper bike

The Scraper Bike Team performing at Town Funk Block Party, Oakland, California

A scraper bike is an ordinary bicycle that has been modified by its owner, typically with decorated spokes with candy-colored pinwheels and matching body and wheel colors, using tinfoil, re-used cardboard, candy wrappers and paint. Scraper bikes are credited for being popularized by Tyrone Stevenson in 2007 in Oakland, California,[1][2] and are an offshoot of the scraper culture of car modification.[3] The scraper bike gained notoriety in 2007 with the YouTube music video "Scraper Bikes" by Trunk Boiz.

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References

  1. ↑ "Scraper Bike Wheels".
  2. ↑ "Maker Faire: Original Scraper Bikes".
  3. ↑ Wiener, Jocelyn (2008-12-08). "Teens in Oakland, Calif., find an outlet in 'scraper bikes'". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
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