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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. OAKLAND — Over potholes and down side streets, through busy intersections and residential neighborhoods, a cadre of youth ...

Give Raymond Wiggins a bicycle - any bike will do: cruiser, mountain bike, BMX, even a 10-speed - and watch him transform it to something extraordinary, something more valuable than merely a mode of ...

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 ...

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 ...