Scraper Bike Boys cover Momentum Magazine

Baybe Champ and the Scraper Bike Boys continue their assent by gracing the cover of Momentum magazine, a bicycle publication covering the whole of North America. Check out the piece HERE and try to find this on a newsstand if you can. Oakland stand up!

Bike to Work Day with The Scraper Bike King

To celebrate Bike to Work Day 2009 Baybe Champ debuted two new scraper bikes down at City Hall. One is inspired by AC Transit and the other features Boston Baked Beans. Gotta love the creativity and forward-minded green thinking.Follow him on Twitter @ScraperBikeKing. I'm @coo1hand1uke

New Scraper Bike Song: "On the Scene"

Baybe Champ aka the @ScraperBikeKing has just dropped a new two-wheeling anthem entitled "On the Scene." The industrious Oakand YG has single-handedly pioneered a hood-friendly response to the green movement and can often be found cruising around The Town with his crew in tow.

The Scraper Bike movement is a fusion of classic Bay flamboastin, clean energy transportation and most importantly- youth creativity. Champ (pictured below) recently received a grant from Oaklandish to continue his work, and hopefully some patents are in the works as well. It's time Oakland youth got paid for their inventiveness. For more peep this previous post, and enjoy Champs new song.
DL: "On the Scene (Snippet)"- Baybe Champ

Oakland's Scraper Bikes Go Oh So Green

Man, ain't no place like the Town. For all you Sponge Bob Square Pants out there who aren't up on the Scraper Bike Movement, get familiar via this vid of Oaklandish's Halloween Scraper Bike Caravan. Oaklandish outfits the SB Crew with their own exclusive Oaklandish Scraper Bike T-shirts and follows them as they smob through Oakland's streets on All Hallow's Eve.

Oakland has once again upped the ante of hoodtastic stuntin' by taking hyphy, tin foil and an imagination and making it the hottest shit since the Festival at the Lake. On the surface, scraper bikes are hilarious and are merely the latest incarnation of the flamboastin' The Town is known and loved for, but there is a deeper level with this one. The SB Movement is glorifying two-wheeling to Oakland youth at a time when the environment is in peril, gas prices are constantly in flux, and obesity is skyrocketing. Plus these kids are clearly organized, ride in formation, stay safe (minus the helmet thing), and participate in a lot of positive Oakland events. On a side note: I fell out laughing when I heard that Jean Quan fell off her bike at one such event at the Lake during a donut session in a Lakeshore intersection. Damn I wish I would have been there!

Above: The Trunk Boiz official "Scraper Bike" music video

All jokes aside though, I'd much rather Champ, The Trunk Boiz and all the scraper bike affiliates slide through The Town on some Schwinns than wrap a Buick around a pole at the side show. They're having fun and making the city greener and more enjoyable at the same time. If Oaklandish sells those tees, Ima have to cop one for sure. Shoot, I might even break out the old Huffy, sit it on some 24s and outfit the spokes with some pink and blue Double Stuff Oreo packaging. lol