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 ...

In the unique folds of the bicycle universe, among the brightly colored niche of what is known as the "scraper bike" - descriptions like ostentatious, overdone and lacking subtlety are often thrown ...

When Tyrone “Baybe Champ” Stevenson was 15, he wanted a way to get around Oakland, Calif., but wasn’t old enough to drive the scraper cars cruising his neighborhood. So, he improvised. He did what any ...