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Privacy: In the analog world of our parents, leaks to the press were heavily protected in both ends – both for the leaker and for the reporter receiving the leak. In the digital world of our children, this has been unceremoniously thrown out the window while discussing something unrelated entirely. Why aren’t our digital children afforded the same checks and balances?

Another area where privacy rights have not been carried over from the analog to the digital concerns journalism, an umbrella of different activities we consider to be an important set of checks-and-balances on power in society. When somebody handed over physical documents to a reporter, that was an analog action that was protected by federal and state laws, and sometimes even by constitutions. When somebody is handing over digital access to the same information to the same type of reporter, reflecting the way we work today and the way our children will work in the future, that is instead prosecutable at both ends.

Let us illustrate this with an example from the real world.

In the 2006 election in Sweden, there was an outcry of disastrous information hygiene on behalf of the ruling party at the time (yes, the same ruling party that later administered the worst governmental leak ever). A username and password circulated that gave full access to the innermost file servers of the Social Democratic party administration from anywhere. The username belonged to a Stig-Olof Friberg, who was using his nickname “sigge” as username, and the same “sigge” as password, and who accessed the innermost files over the Social Democratic office’s unencrypted, open, wireless network.

Calling this “bad opsec” doesn’t begin to describe it. Make a careful note to remember that these were, and still are, the institutions and people we rely on to make policy for good safeguarding of sensitive citizen data.

However, in the shadow of this, there was also the more important detail that some political reporters were well aware of the login credentials, such as one of Sweden’s most (in)famous political reporters Niklas Svensson, who had been using the credentials as a journalistic tool to gain insight into the ruling party’s workings.

This is where it gets interesting, because in the analog world, that reporter would have received leaks in the form of copied documents, physically handed over to him, and leaking to the press in this analog manner was (and still is) an extremely protected activity under law and indeed some constitutions — in Sweden, as this concerns, you can even go to prison for casually speculating over coffee at work who might have been behind a leak to the press. It is taken extremely seriously.

However, in this case, the reporter wasn’t leaked the documents, but was leaked a key for access to the digital documents — the ridiculously insecure credentials “sigge/sigge” — and was convicted in criminal court for electronic trespassing as a result, despite doing journalistic work with a clear analog protected equivalent.

It’s interesting to look at history to see how much critically important events would never have been uncovered, if this prosecution of digital journalism had been applied to analog journalism.

For one example, let’s take the COINTELPRO leak, when activists copied files from an FBI office to uncover a covert and highly illegal operation by law enforcement to discredit political organizations based solely on their political opinion. (This is not what law enforcement should be doing, speaking in general terms.) This leak happened when activists put up a note on the FBI office door on March 8, 1971 saying “Please do not lock this door tonight”, came back in the middle of the night when nobody was there, found the door unlocked as requested, and took (stole) about 1,000 classified files that revealed the illegal practices.

These were then mailed to various press outlets. The theft resulted in the exposure of some of the FBI’s most self-incriminating documents, including several documents detailing the FBI’s use of postal workers, switchboard operators, etc., in order to spy on black college students and various non-violent black activist groups, according to Wikipedia. And here’s the kicker in the context: while the people stealing the documents could and would have been indicted for doing so, it was unthinkable to charge the reporters receiving them with anything.

This is no longer the case.

Our digital children have lost the right to leak information to reporters in the way the world works today, an activity that was taken for granted — indeed, seen as crucially important to the balance of power — in the world of our digital parents. Our digital children who work as reporters can no longer safely receive leaks showing abuse of power. It is entirely reasonable that our digital children should have at least the same set of civil liberties in their digital world, as our parents had in their analog world.

Privacy remains your own responsibility.

Privacy: We’ve seen how our digital children’s privacy is violated in everything they buy with cash or credit, in a way our analog parents would have balked at. But even worse: our digital children’s privacy is also violated by tracking what they don’t buy — either actively decline or just plain walk away from.

Amazon just opened its first “Amazon Go” store, where you just pick things into a bag and leave, without ever going through a checkout process. As part of the introduction of this concept, Amazon points out that you can pick something off the shelves, at which point it’ll register in your purchase — and change your mind and put it back, at which point you’ll be registered and logged as having not purchased the item.

Sure, you’re not paying for something you changed your mind about, which is the point of the video presentation. But it’s not just about the deduction from your total amount to pay: Amazon also knows you considered buying it and eventually didn’t, and will be using that data.

Our digital children are tracked this way on a daily basis, if not an hourly basis. Our analog parents never were.

When we’re shopping for anything online, there are even simple plugins for the most common merchant solutions with the business terms “funnel analysis” — where in the so-called “purchase funnel” our digital children choose to leave the process of purchasing something — or “cart abandonment analysis”.

We can’t even simply walk away from something anymore without it being recorded, logged, and cataloged for later use against us.

But so-called “cart abandonment” is only one part of the bigger issue of tracking what we’re interested in in the age of our digital children, but didn’t buy. There is no shortage of people today who would swear they were just discussing a very specific type of product with their phone present (say, “black leather skirts”) and all of a sudden, advertising for that very specific type of product would pop up all over Facebook and/or Amazon ads. Is this really due to some company listening for keywords through the phone? Maybe, maybe not. All we know since Snowden is that if it’s technically possible to invade privacy, it is already happening.

(We have to assume here these people still need to learn how to install a simple adblocker. But still.)

At the worst ad-dense places, like (but not limited to) airports, there are eyeball trackers to find out which ads you look at. They don’t yet change to match your interests, as per Minority Report, but that’s already present on your phone and on your desktop, and so wouldn’t be foreign to see in public soon, either.

In the world of our analog parents, we weren’t registered and tracked when we bought something.

In the world of our digital children, we’re registered and tracked even when we don’t buy something.

Privacy: At worst, our analog parents could be prevented from meeting each other. Our digital children are prevented from talking about particular subjects, once the conversation is already happening. This is a horrifying development.

When our digital children are posting a link to The Pirate Bay somewhere on Facebook, a small window sometimes pops up saying “you have posted a link with potentially harmful content. Please refrain from posting such links.”

Yes, even in private conversations. Especially in private conversations.

This may seem like a small thing, but it is downright egregious. Our digital children are not prevented from having a conversation, per se, but are monitored for bad topics that the regime doesn’t like being discussed, and are prevented from discussing those topics. This is far worse than preventing certain people from just meeting.

The analog equivalent would be if our parents were holding an analog phone conversation, and a menacing third voice popped into the conversation with a slow voice speaking just softly enough to be perceived as threatening: “You have mentioned a prohibited subject. Please refrain from discussing prohibited subjects in the future.”

Our parents would have been horrified if this happened — and rightly so!

But in the digital world of our children, the same phenomenon is instead cheered on by the same people who would abhor it if it happened in their world, to themselves.

In this case, of course, it is any and all links to The Pirate Bay that are considered forbidden topics, under the assumption — assumption! — that they lead to manufacturing of copies that would be found in breach of the copyright monopoly in a court of law.

When I first saw the Facebook window above telling me to not discuss forbidden subjects, I was trying to distribute political material I had created myself, and used The Pirate Bay to distribute. It happens to be a very efficient way to distribute large files, which is exactly why it is being used by a lot of people for that purpose (gee, who would have thought?), including people like myself who wanted to distribute large collections of political material.

There are private communications channels, but far too few use them, and the politicians at large (yes, this includes our analog parents) are still cheering on this development, because “terrorism” and other bogeymen.

Privacy remains your own responsibility.

Privacy: For our analog parents, a diary or a personal letter could rarely be touched by authorities, not even by law enforcement searching for evidence of a crime. Objects such as these had protection over and above the constitutional privacy safeguards. For our digital children, however, the equivalent diaries and letters aren’t even considered worthy of basic constitutional privacy.

In most jurisdictions, there is a constitutional right to privacy. Law enforcement in such countries can’t just walk in and read somebody’s mail, wiretap their phonecalls, or track their IP addresses. They need a prior court order to do so, which in turn is based on a concrete suspicion of a serious crime: the general case is that you have a right to privacy, and violations of this rule are the exception, not the norm.

However, there’s usually a layer of protection over and above this: even if and when law enforcement gets permission from a judge to violate somebody’s privacy in the form of a search warrant of their home, there are certain things that may not be touched unless specific and additional permissions are granted by the same type of judge. This class of items includes the most private of the personal: private letters, diaries, and so on.

Of course, this is only true in the analog world of our parents. Even though the letter of the law is the same, this protection doesn’t apply at all to the digital world of our children, to their diaries and letters.

Because the modern diary is kept on a computer. If not on a desktop computer, then certainly on a mobile handheld one — what we’d call a “phone” for historical reasons, but what’s really a handheld computer.

And a computer is a work tool in the analog world of our parents. There are loads of precedent cases that establish any form of electronic device as a work tool, dating back well into the analog world, and law enforcement is falling back on all of them with vigor, even now that our digital devices are holding our diaries, personal letters, and other items far more private than an analog diary was ever capable of.

That’s right: whereas your parents’ diaries were extremely protected under the law of the land, your children’s diaries — no less private to them, than those of your parents were to your parents — are as protected from search and seizure as an ordinary steel wrench in a random workshop.

So the question is how we got from point A to point B here? Why are the Police, who know that they can’t touch an analog diary during a house search, instantly grabbing mobile phones which serve the same purpose for our children?

“Because they can”, is the short answer. “Also because nobody put their foot down” for advanced points on the civics course. It’s because some people saw short term political points in being “tough on crime” and completely erasing hard-won rights in the process.

Encrypt everything.

Privacy: In a series of posts on this blog, we have shown how practically everything our parents took for granted with regards to privacy has been completely eliminated for our children, just because they use digital tools instead of analog, and the people interpreting the laws are saying that privacy only applies to the old, analog environment of our parents.

Once you agree with the observation that privacy seems to simply not apply for our children, merely for living in a digitally-powered environment instead of our parents’ analog-powered one, surprise turns to shock turns to anger, and it’s easy to want to assign blame to someone for essentially erasing five generations’ fight for civil liberties while people were looking the other way.

So whose fault is it, then?

It’s more than one actor at work here, but part of the blame must be assigned to the illusion that that nothing has changed, just because our digital children can use old-fashioned and obsolete technology to obtain the rights they should always have by law and constitution, regardless of which method they use to talk to friends and exercise their privacy rights.

We’ve all heard these excuses.

“You still have privacy of correspondence, just use the old analog letter”. As if the Internet generation would. You might as well tell our analog parents that they would need to send a wired telegram to enjoy some basic rights.

“You can still use a library freely.” Well, only an analog one, not a digital one like The Pirate Bay, which differs from an analog library only in efficiency, and not in anything else.

“You can still discuss anything you like.” Yes, but only in the analog streets and squares, not in the digital streets and squares.

“You can still date someone without the government knowing your dating preferences.” Only if I prefer to date like our parents did, in the unsafe analog world, as opposed to the safe digital environment where predators vanish at the click of a “block” button, an option our analog parents didn’t have in shady bars.

The laws aren’t different for the analog and the digital. The law doesn’t make a difference between analog and digital. But no law is above the people who interpret it in the courts, and the way people interpret those laws means the privacy rights always apply to the analog world, but never to the digital world.

It’s not rocket science to demand the same laws to apply offline and online. This includes copyright law, as well as the fact that privacy of correspondence takes precedence over copyright law (in other words, you’re not allowed to open and examine private correspondence for infringements in the analog world, not without prior and individual warrants — our law books are full of these checks and balances; they should apply in the digital too, but don’t today).

Going back to blame, that’s one actor right there: the copyright industry. They have successfully argued that their monopoly laws should apply online just as it does offline, and in doing so, has completely ignored all the checks and balances that apply to the copyright monopoly laws in the analog world. And since copying movies and music has now moved into the same communications channels as we use for private correspondence, the copyright monopoly as such has become fundamentally incompatible with private correspondence at the conceptual level.

The copyright industry has been aware of this conflict and has been continuously pushing for eroded and eliminated privacy to prop up their crumbling and obsolete monopolies, such as pushing for the hated (and now court-axed) Data Retention Directive in Europe. They would use this federal law (or European equivalent thereof) to literally get more powers than the Police themselves in pursuing individual people who were simply sharing music and movies, sharing in the way everybody does.

There are two other major factors at work. The second factor is marketing. The reason we’re tracked at the sub-footstep level in airports and other busy commercial centers is simply to sell us more crap we don’t need. This comes at the expense of privacy that our analog parents took for granted. Don’t even get started on Facebook and Google.

Last but not least are the surveillance hawks — the politicians who want to look “Tough on Crime”, or “Tough on Terrorism”, or whatever the word of choice is this week. These were the ones who pushed the Data Retention Directive into law. The copyright industry were the ones who basically wrote it for them.

These three factors have working together, and they’ve been very busy.

It’s going to be a long uphill battle to win back the liberties that were slowly won by our ancestors over about six generations, and which have been all but abolished in a decade.

It’s not rocket science that our children should have at least the same set of civil liberties in their digital environment, as our parents had in their analog environment. And yet, this is not happening.

Our children are right to demand Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights — the civil liberties our parents not just enjoyed, but took for granted.

I fear the failure to pass on the civil liberties from our parents to our children is going to be seen as the greatest failure of this particular current generation, regardless of all the good we also accomplish. Surveillance societies can be erected in just ten years, but can take centuries to roll back.

Privacy remains your own responsibility today. We all need to take it back merely by exercising our privacy rights, with whatever tools are at our disposal.

Image from the movie “Nineteen-Eighty Four”; used under fair use for political commentary.

Bitcoin: As the dust settles after the November 15 bitcoin upgrade, the roadmaps have been updated with the new state of the protocol and people are starting to looking ahead to the next set of features. I thought I’d take the opportunity to give my view on it.

The new set of features ahead has been published on bitcoincash.org, which is for the most part spearheaded by the Bitcoin ABC implementation, but where Bitcoin Unlimited also deserves significant credit for research and development.

This is the current “you are here” map as of end-2018:

I like this roadmap for two reasons. Or rather, for two levels of reasons.

The first is that I see bitcoin as the path to a world currency. In order to be so, it will need to carry an insanely heavier load, and because of the typical velocity of money, each bitcoin must be valued far higher than it is today — to a point where single satoshis are no longer a small unit, but represent maybe a few cents. That quanta (smallest possible discrete value) is not small enough to provide frictionless automated microtrade, which is why I’m looking forward to — and have been discreetly applauding — the fractional satoshis on the roadmap. The bigger footprint a network gets, the more inertia it takes to change something, so getting these two items in with reasonable speed is something I regard as key.

The third key item is extensibility — the ability to extend the protocol without asking permission, akin to how early browsers started supporting random new HTML markup tags left and right. This drove the standards forward and allowed for rapid feedback cycles with the user community, and something similar will be needed for permissionless innovation on top of bitcoin to really take off.

These three taken together happen to represent the final phase of the three tracks that the roadmap lists. I have some understanding that each of them have necessary prerequisites that are being filled in some sort of logical order.

This brings me to the Law of Two Feet.

You see, it doesn’t really matter what I think of a feature, whether I like it or not. I am a diehard proponent of the Law of Two Feet: It simply means that if you don’t like something, then it is your responsibility — both toward yourself and the community you don’t like — to walk to a place you do like.

(Just to be clear, the Law of Two Feet is inclusive. It also applies to people who don’t have two actual feet.)

This is what I worded as the Freedom of Initiative and the Freedom to Follow, and it is absolutely key for permissionless innovation. You don’t get that the moment somebody is trying to give somebody else permission on what road they may choose.

Each of us have the freedom to take any initiative we want.

Each of us also have the freedom to follow any initiative we like.

But no one of us may tell another what they must or may not do.

I happen to very much approve of the above roadmap from where I’m sitting. But even if I didn’t, the freedom of initiative and freedom to follow are far more important than my opinion on this particular initiative.

Activism: As the Pirate Party slowly veered to the left in politics, I got to experience Sullivan’s Law, which states that organizations that don’t outright declare themselves otherwise will inevitably drift off to the political left. The law doesn’t explain this phenomenon, but I think I can.

The Pirate Party was unique in its composition of activists. Whereas most political organizations can plot the political attitudes of their activists to a bell curve on the political left-to-right scale, that is, the organization can identify a clear peak and center mass where they lie politically, the Pirate Party instead had a complete empty trough in the middle, with waves crashing into the left and right wall on the left-to-right spectrum plot.

We had the most fervent anarchocapitalists and the most fervent anarchocommunists. At the same time. Cooperating. That was probably something of a political first. It also allowed me to see differences between these two groups that weren’t clear from the outset, and which might explain why organizations drift left over time.

O’Sullivans Law states that any organization that is not expressly right-leaning in politics will change over time to become left-leaning. There are some hypotheses as to why, including the observation that right-wing people will tolerate and even welcome left-wing people in an otherwise unpolitical organization, but that left-wing people will generally not tolerate right-wing people. While this observation can be made, I believe it is not enough for an entire organization to shift politically.

The explanation is far simpler, and it’s been hiding in plain sight for everyone.

Left-wing people are collectivists. They believe that the greater good shall have precedence over the wishes and desires over the individual, and organize to achieve this. Conversely, they do not feel at home when somebody tells them to promote a cause in whatever way they themselves think is best in their individual situation.

Right-wing people are individualists. They believe that the greatest good, even for the worst-off people, is best achieved by giving individuals as free reign as possible so that innovation and creativity can take place. Conversely, they do not feel at home when somebody is trying to dictate to them what to do and not to do.

This is almost painfully clear when working with both groups at the same time in a political organization. Ah yes, that’s the magic word, right there. Organization. A Non-profit organization, specifically. Do you know how these are run?

Basically without exception, they are run as a general assembly, where people are elected to positions and decisions are taken with a majority vote.

…decisions are taken with a majority vote.

It became painfully clear to me, that the form of a neutral association — the form we have, or had, accepted as neutral — is actually nothing of the sort. It turns out, that an organization that takes collective decisions promotes people who like collective decision-making, and turns away people who prefer individual initiatives.

The association with its board, its general assembly, and its majority votes isn’t neutral. It is pushing its membership left, through its very nature, by selecting for those who enjoy collective decision-making and procedural trickery, and marginalizing those who prefer individual initiatives.

This is why, if I were to found a new political organization today, I would never use the traditional Non-profit Association format, for it is not neutral and it will ruin whatever original vision you had.

For this same reason, I have come to be sceptical of center-right political parties who are run by this majority vote. They’ll never be as powerful as they can be, had they instead organized by individual initiatives — because they are competing against left-wing political parties who feel right at home in this form of organization, which they usually mandated to be the norm for everyone.

Activism: In the ever-evolving landscape of politics, we often find ourselves confined to the traditional left-right spectrum. This binary view, with its emphasis on economic and social policies, sometimes obscures deeper motivations driving voter behavior and political trends. As a result, we might miss crucial insights that could enhance our understanding of why people vote the way they do, why political movements gain momentum, and why some ideas resonate while others falter. I have found an alternative framework to be far more helpful: the Maslow Pyramid.

Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, typically illustrated as a pyramid, categorizes human needs into five levels: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Maslow famously hypothesized, that a lower-level need must be satisfied before we start attempting to fulfill the needs of the next level — as an example, while we’re starving and live in fear of being robbed (level one), we’re not so much concerned with having the respect of the community (level four). By examining political trends through this lens, we can gain a richer, more nuanced perspective on what drives societal shifts and voter preferences.

Physiological Needs and the Politics of Survival

At the base of Maslow’s pyramid are physiological needs: food, water, warmth, and rest — as well as immediate physical safety. In times of economic crisis, political discourse often gravitates towards these fundamental concerns. Populist movements frequently gain traction by promising to address the immediate needs of the people. For instance, during the Great Recession, there was a surge in support for policies focused on job creation, healthcare access, and basic economic security. Politicians who can convincingly address these basic needs often see significant support from constituencies facing hardship just getting from one day to the next without getting beaten, robbed, or starved. Fear of getting to this state (fear of getting robbed on your way to/from work, school, etc.) will also suffice to place oneself at this level.

However, if established parties fail to address these concerns, voters will inevitably turn to whomever offers a solution, even if it’s an atrocious one. It’s like choosing Comcast for your Internet connection when no other provider is available—you know the service is subpar, but having some connection is better than none. Similarly, in politics, when mainstream parties neglect the foundational needs of the populace, fringe or extremist parties can gain support by simply acknowledging and addressing these unmet needs — and that is regardless of how flawed their solutions to said problems may be.

Safety Needs and the Demand for Stability

Moving up the pyramid, once the physical needs are met, then safety needs encompass longer-term personal security, employment, and health. Political rhetoric around law and order, immigration control, and national security taps into these safety concerns. When people feel their safety is threatened, whether by crime, terrorism, or economic instability, they are more likely to support policies and leaders who promise to restore stability and protect them from perceived threats. The post-9/11 era (just after 2001), with its heightened focus on national security, is a prime example of how safety needs can dominate the political agenda.

Yet again, if traditional parties fail to provide a sense of security, voters may gravitate towards any party that promises to deliver it, even if their methods are draconian and/or frankly ridiculous.

Love and Belonging: The Politics of Identity

The middle tier of the pyramid addresses social needs: relationships, friendships, and a sense of belonging. Identity politics, which includes movements advocating for the rights of specific social groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and more, finds its roots here. Political movements that foster a sense of community and belonging can galvanize supporters by addressing these intrinsic needs. The LGBPQRST+ rights movement, for instance, not only fights for legal rights but also seeks to create a supportive community for its members.

When mainstream parties overlook these social needs, people will seek out any group or party that offers them a sense of belonging, even if that party’s overall agenda is problematic. It’s a matter of seeking connection where it’s available.

Esteem: The Quest for Recognition

Esteem needs encompass respect, self-esteem, status, and recognition. Political leaders who can validate the contributions and worth of their supporters often build strong, loyal followings. This is evident in political campaigns that emphasize the dignity of work, the importance of patriotism, and the recognition of personal achievements. Policies aimed at rewarding hard work and providing opportunities for personal advancement resonate deeply with voters seeking validation and respect.

Self-Actualization: The Pursuit of Fulfillment

At the peak of the pyramid is self-actualization — the realization of one’s potential and the pursuit of personal growth and fulfillment. Politics at this level involves visionary thinking and appeals to higher ideals. Environmental movements with or without solutions based in reality, space exploration initiatives, and educational reforms often engage this need. Leaders who inspire through their vision of a better future, who challenge citizens to think beyond their immediate concerns and contribute to something greater than themselves, tap into this highest level of human motivation.

It’s rather telling that the biggest telltale sign for voters (and media), who are personally at this level of human needs, is that they often and happily paint the political parties and movements answering to level-one and level-two human needs as brutish, uneducated, simpleton and backwards — when in reality, what such name-calling voters who pretend to hold themselves to some sort of higher standard are really doing, is disacknowledging that other people’s most basic needs are simply not being met. Talk about being overprivileged in ivory towers! “Let them eat cake”, anyone?

If mainstream political parties neglect to engage voters at this level, people will align with any party that inspires them, even if the broader agenda is not entirely sound. It can be somewhat like signing up for a self-help seminar led by a guy who lives in his mom’s basement because he speaks so passionately about “unlocking your potential.”

A Holistic Approach to Political Analysis

By applying the Maslow Pyramid to our understanding of political trends, we gain a multi-dimensional view that goes beyond the simplicity of left versus right. This approach allows us to see how different policies and political messages resonate with various segments of the population based on their current needs and aspirations.

For instance, a comprehensive healthcare reform policy can address physiological needs by ensuring access to medical care, safety needs by providing financial security, love and belonging by reducing social disparities, esteem by recognizing healthcare as a right, and self-actualization by promoting a healthier society capable of achieving its full potential.

It’s further important to realize that an individual voter would vote for completely different parties, even at opposite ends of the traditional spectrum, depending on where they feel the most urgency in their personal needs at the moment, and that this is not a contradiction or uncertainty on policies.

In conclusion, the Maslow Pyramid provides a valuable framework for understanding the complex and dynamic nature of political trends. It reminds us that politics is fundamentally about people and their needs. By considering these needs in our political analysis, we can develop more empathetic, effective, and inclusive strategies that resonate deeply with the human condition. And crucially, we must remember that when these needs are ignored, voters will turn to any party that promises to meet them, even if it means accepting a deeply flawed solution. After all, in the absence of better options, you might just end up with Comcast.

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1. Geltungsbereich

1.1. Diese Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen (nachfolgend "AGB" genannt) der "kunstform GmbH" (nachfolgend "Verkäufer" genannt), gelten für sämtliche Verträge, die ein Verbraucher oder Unternehmer (nachfolgend "Kunde" genannt) mit dem Verkäufer über die vom Verkäufer in seinem Online-Shop angebotenen Waren abschließt. Der Einbeziehung von eigenen Bedingungen des Kunden wird widersprochen, es sei denn, es ist etwas anderes vereinbart.

1.2. Diese AGB gelten entsprechend für den Erwerb von Gutscheinen, wenn und soweit nicht ausdrücklich Abweichendes geregelt ist.

1.3. Verbraucher ist jede natürliche Person, die ein Rechtsgeschäft zu einem Zweck abschließt, der überwiegend weder ihrer gewerblichen noch ihrer selbständigen beruflichen Tätigkeit zugerechnet werden kann.

1.4. Unternehmer ist eine natürliche oder juristische Person oder eine rechtsfähige Personengesellschaft, die bei Abschluss eines Rechtsgeschäfts in Ausübung ihrer gewerblichen oder selbständigen beruflichen Tätigkeit handelt.

2. Vertragsschluss

2.1. Die Präsentation der Waren insbesondere im Onlineshop stellt noch kein bindendes Angebot des Verkäufers dar.

2.2. Zunächst legt der Kunde die ausgewählte Ware in den Warenkorb. Im anschließenden Schritt beginnt der Bestellvorgang, in welchem alle erforderlichen Daten zur Auftragsabwicklung erfasst werden.
Am Ende des Bestellvorgangs erscheint eine Zusammenfassung der Bestell- und Vertragsdaten. Erst nach Bestätigung dieser Bestell- und Vertragsdaten durch Klick auf den den Bestellvorgang abschließenden Button gibt der Kunde ein verbindliches Angebot über den Kauf der im Warenkorb enthaltenen Waren ab.

Der Kunde kann dieses Angebot auch per Fax, Email, postalisch oder telefonisch gegenüber dem Verkäufer abgeben.

2.3. Der Verkäufer nimmt das Angebot des Kunden durch folgende mögliche Alternativen an:

- Übersendung einer schriftlichen Auftragsbestätigung oder einer Auftragsbestätigung in Textform (Fax oder E-Mail) 
oder
- Aufforderung zur Zahlung an den Kunden nach Abgabe der Bestellung 
oder
- Lieferung der bestellten Ware 
  
Maßgeblich für den Zeitpunkt der Annahme ist die erste eingetretene Alternative.

Die Frist zur Annahme des Angebots beginnt am Tag nach der Absendung des Angebots durch den Kunden und endet mit dem Ablauf des fünften Tages, der auf die Absendung des Angebots folgt. Nimmt der Verkäufer das Angebot des Kunden innerhalb der vorgenannten Frist nicht an, stellt dies die Ablehnung des Angebots dar. Der Kunde ist dann nicht mehr an seine Willenserklärung gebunden.

2.4. Wird die Zahlart "PayPal" oder  "Paypal Express" ausgewählt, so erfolgt die Zahlungsabwicklung durch den Zahlungsdienstleister PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (folgend: "Paypal"). Hierbei gilt die Paypal-Nutzungsvereinbarung, diese ist abrufbar  unter https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full bzw. für Kunden ohne eigenes Paypal-Konto: https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacywax-full.
Wählt der Kunde für die Zahlung seines Einkaufs die Zahlungsart "PayPal" oder "PayPal Express" aus oder zahlt der Kunde über eine der PayPal-Zahlungsarten , gibt er mit Anklicken des den Bestellvorgang abschließenden Buttons sein Angebot ab. Erteilt der Kunde gleichzeitig durch Anklicken dieses Buttons auch den Zahlungsauftrag an PayPal, erklärt der Verkäufer abweichend von den obenstehenden Regelungen die Annahme des Angebotes des Kunden im Zeitpunkt der Erteilung des Zahlungsauftrages. 

2.5. Der Vertragstext des jeweils zwischen dem Verkäufer und dem Kunden geschlossenen Vertrages wird durch den Verkäufer gespeichert. Der Vertragstext wird auf den internen Systemen des Verkäufers gespeichert. Die Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen kann der Kunde jederzeit auf dieser Seite einsehen. Die Bestelldaten, die Widerrufsbelehrung sowie die AGB werden dem Kunden per Email zugesendet. Nach Abschluss der Bestellung ist der Vertragstext dem Kunden über dessen Kundenlogin kostenlos zugänglich, sofern dieser ein Kundenkonto eröffnet hat. 


2.6. Alle getätigten Eingaben werden vor Anklicken des Bestellbuttons angezeigt und können durch den Kunden vor Absendung der Bestellung eingesehen und durch Betätigung des Zurück-Buttons des Browsers oder die üblichen Maus- und Tastaturfunktionen korrigiert werden. Daneben stehen dem Kunden, sofern verfügbar, Buttons zur Korrektur zur Verfügung, die entsprechend beschriftet sind. 


2.7. Die Vertragssprache ist Deutsch.

2.8. Es obliegt dem Kunden, eine korrekte Emailadresse zur Kontaktaufnahme und Abwicklung der Bestellung anzugeben, sowie die Filterfunktionen so einzustellen, dass Emails, die diese Bestellung betreffen, zugestellt werden können. 

3. Preise und Zahlungsbedingungen

3.1. Die angezeigten Preise sind Endpreise inklusive der gesetzlichen Umsatzsteuer, wenn nichts anderes vereinbart ist.
Sofern zusätzliche Versandkosten anfallen, ist dies der Produktbeschreibung zu entnehmen.

3.2. Sofern die Lieferung in das Nicht-EU-Ausland erfolgt, können weitere Zölle, Steuern oder Gebühren vom Kunden an die dort zuständigen Zoll- bzw. Steuerbehörden oder an Kreditinstitute zu zahlen sein.
Dem Kunden wird empfohlen, die Einzelheiten vor der Bestellung bei den jeweiligen Einrichtungen oder Behörden zu erfragen.

3.3. Der Kunde kann die Zahlungsarten auswählen, die im Onlineshop zur Verfügung stehen.

3.4. Bei Vorkasse per Banküberweisung ist die Zahlung, wenn nichts anderes vereinbart ist, unmittelbar nach Vertragsschluss fällig.

3.5. Bei der Zahlung per "PayPal" erfolgt die Zahlungsabwicklung über PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. Hierfür gelten die Nutzungsbedingungen von Paypal. Diese sind unter https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full einsehbar. 

3.6. Paypal-Checkout

Wenn Sie über den PayPal Checkout bezahlen, erfolgt die Zahlungsabwicklung über PayPal Zahlungsdienstleister PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg (folgend: "Paypal"), wobei sich PayPal hierzu auch der Dienste dritter Zahlungsanbieter bedienen kann, die Sie, soweit angeboten, auswählen können.

Sofern auf dieser Webseite auch Zahlungsarten angeboten werden, bei denen der Verkäufer in Vorleistung geht (wie etwa Rechnungskauf oder Ratenzahlung), so erklärt der Verkäufer die Abtretung seiner Zahlungsforderung an PayPal bzw. an den von PayPal beauftragten und durch den Kunden konkret ausgewählten Zahlungsdienstleister. PayPal oder der ausgewählte Drittanbieter führt zunächst eine Bonitätsprüfung durch, bevor er das Abtretungsangebot des Verkäufers annimmt. Die ausgewählte Zahlungsart kann verweigert werden, wenn die Bonitätsprüfung ein negatives Ergebnis liefert.

Eine Zahlung ist nach Zulassung der gewählten Zahlungsart nur an PayPal oder den jeweiligen beauftragten Zahlungsdienstleister mit schuldbefreiender Wirkung möglich. 

3.7. Bei der Zahlung über "PayPal Lastschrift" erfolgt der Einzug der Forderung durch PayPal nach Erteilung eines SEPA-Lastschriftmandats und nach Ablauf der Frist für die Vorabinformation im Auftrag des Verkäufers vom Bankkonto des Kunden. Eine Vorabinformation ist die Ankündigung des Verkäufers an den Kunden, dass sein Konto mittels SEPA-Lastschrift belastet wird und kann beispielsweise in Form einer Rechnung oder eines Vertrages geschehen.  Kann die Lastschrift aufgrund unzureichender Kontodeckung oder aufgrund der Angabe einer falschen Bankverbindung nicht eingelöst werden oder widerspricht der Kunde der Abbuchung, ohne hierzu berechtigt zu sein, hat der Kunde die durch die Rückbuchung des jeweiligen Kreditinstituts entstehenden Gebühren zu tragen, wenn er dies zu vertreten hat. Das übrige Vertragsverhältnis sowie Rechte und Pflichten gegenüber dem Verkäufer und des Verkäufers bleiben von der Zahlung per Lastschrift unberührt.

3.8. Bei der Zahlung per "PayPal Ratenzahlung" schließt der Kunde mit PayPal einen Teilzahlungsvertrag ab. Gestattet PayPal die Zahlung via "PayPal Ratenzahlung", hat der Kunde den Rechnungsbetrag zu den vom Paypal festgelegten Konditionen, die ihm im Zahlportal von Paypal mitgeteilt werden, an PayPal zu bezahlen
Es gelten die Nutzungsbedingungen von Paypal, welche Sie hier finden:
[url]https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/legalhub-full?locale.x=de_DE[/url]
Das übrige Vertragsverhältnis sowie Rechte und Pflichten gegenüber dem Verkäufer und des Verkäufers bleiben von dieser Zahlungsart unberührt.

3.9. Bei der Zahlung auf Rechnung via "PayPal Rechnung" erfolgt die Zahlungsabwicklung durch PayPal.
Der Kaufpreis  wird nach Auslieferung der Ware fällig und ist binnen 30 Tagen ab Erhalt der Rechnung an PayPal zu zahlen, sofern kein anderes Zahlungsziel vorgegeben wird.
Der Kauf auf Rechnung setzt eine erfolgreiche Bonitätsprüfung durch PayPal voraus. 
Wird dem Kunden nach Prüfung der Bonität der Kauf auf Rechnung gestattet, tritt der Verkäufer seine Forderung an PayPal ab, daher kann nur an PayPal mit schuldbefreiender Wirkung geleistet werden. 
Das übrige Vertragsverhältnis sowie Rechte und Pflichten gegenüber dem Verkäufer und des Verkäufers bleiben von dieser Zahlungsart unberührt.
im Übrigen gelten die Allgemeinen Nutzungsbedingungen für die Nutzung des Rechnungskaufs von PayPal:  https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/pui-terms.

4. Liefer- und Versandbedingungen

4.1. Die Lieferung von Waren auf dem Versandweg erfolgt an die vom Kunden angegebene Lieferanschrift. Abweichend hiervon ist bei der Zahlung per PayPal die vom Kunden zum Zeitpunkt der Bezahlung bei PayPal hinterlegte Lieferanschrift maßgeblich.

4.2. Entstehen dem Verkäufer aufgrund der Angabe einer falschen Lieferadresse oder eines falschen Adressaten oder anderer Umstände die zur Unmöglichkeit der Zustellung führen, zusätzliche Kosten, so sind diese von dem Kunden zu ersetzen, außer er hat die Falschangabe oder Unmöglichkeit nicht zu vertreten. Gleiches gilt für den Fall, dass der Kunde vorübergehend an der Annahme der Leistung verhindert war, es sei denn, der Verkäufer hat ihm die Leistung vorher angemessen angekündigt. Ausgenommen von dieser Regelung sind die Kosten der Hinsendung, wenn der Kunde sein Widerrufsrecht wirksam ausgeübt hat. Hier verbleibt es bei der gesetzlichen oder der durch den Verkäufer getroffenen Regelung.


4.3. Bei vereinbarter Selbstabholung wird der Kunde durch den Verkäufer informiert, dass die von ihm bestellte Ware zur Abholung bereitsteht. Nach Erhalt dieser E-Mail kann der Kunde die Ware nach Absprache mit dem Verkäufer am Sitz des Verkäufers oder an einem vereinbarten Ort abholen. In diesem Fall entstehen keine Versandkosten.

4.4. Gutscheine werden dem Kunden in folgender Form überlassen:

• per E-Mail
• per Download
  
• postalisch
  

5. Widerrufsrecht

5.1. Ist der Kunde Verbraucher, steht ihm grundsätzlich ein Widerrufsrecht zu. 

5.2. Für das Widerrufsrecht gilt die Widerrufsbelehrung des Verkäufers.

6. Eigentumsvorbehalt

Sofern der Verkäufer in Vorleistung tritt, bleibt die Ware bis zur vollständigen Begleichung des Kaufpreises im Eigentum des Verkäufers.

7. Mängelhaftung

7.1. Hinsichtlich der Gewährleistung gelten die Vorschriften der gesetzlichen Mängelhaftung, soweit nichts Abweichendes vereinbart worden ist.

7.2. Der Kunde wird gebeten, angelieferte Waren mit offensichtlichen Transportschäden bei dem Zusteller zu reklamieren und den Verkäufer hiervon in Kenntnis zu setzen. Die Nichtbefolgung hat keinerlei Auswirkungen auf die gesetzlichen oder vertraglichen Mängelansprüche des Kunden.

8. Haftung

Die Haftung des Verkäufers aus allen vertraglichen, vertragsähnlichen und gesetzlichen, sowie deliktischen Ansprüchen auf Schadens- und Aufwendungsersatz bestimmt sich wie folgt:

8.1. Der Verkäufer haftet nur für Schäden, die auf einem vorsätzlichen oder grob fahrlässigen Verhalten zurückzuführen sind uneingeschränkt.
Bei der Verletzung von Leben, Körper und Gesundheit und der Verletzung wesentlicher Vertragspflichten (Kardinalpflichten) haftet der Verkäufer auch bei leichter Fahrlässigkeit.

Eine wesentliche Vertragspflicht ist eine solche, deren Erfüllung die ordnungsgemäße Durchführung des Vertrags überhaupt erst ermöglicht und auf deren Einhaltung der Vertragspartner regelmäßig vertraut und vertrauen darf.

Der Verkäufer haftet wie oben geregelt auch aufgrund eines Garantieversprechens, soweit diesbezüglich nichts anderes geregelt ist.

Dies gilt auch für mittelbare Folgeschäden wie insbesondere entgangenen Gewinn und für zwingende Haftung wie etwa nach dem Produkthaftungsgesetz.

8.2. Die Haftung ist - außer bei vorsätzlichen oder grob fahrlässigen Verhalten oder bei Schäden aus der Verletzung von Leben, Körper und Gesundheit und der Verletzung wesentlicher Vertragspflichten (Kardinalpflichten) - auf die bei Vertragsschluss typischer Weise vorhersehbaren Schäden und im Übrigen der Höhe nach auf die vertragstypischen Durchschnittsschäden begrenzt. Dies gilt auch für mittelbare Folgeschäden wie insbesondere entgangenen Gewinn.

8.3. Im Übrigen ist eine Haftung des Verkäufers ausgeschlossen.

8.4. Vorstehende Haftungsregelungen geltend sinngemäß auch zugunsten der Mitarbeiter und Erfüllungsgehilfen des Verkäufers.

9. Freistellung bei Verletzung von Drittrechten

Sofern der Verkäufer dem Kunden vertragsgemäß neben der Warenlieferung auch die Verarbeitung der Ware nach bestimmten Vorgaben des Kunden schuldet, hat der Kunde sicherzustellen, dass die dem Verkäufer von ihm zu diesem Zwecke überlassenen Inhalte nicht die Rechte Dritter verletzen. Die Vertragsparteien vereinbaren, dass der Kunde den Verkäufer von Ansprüchen Dritter in diesem Zusammenhang freistellt, außer, er hat die Rechtsverletzung nicht zu vertreten. Zu der Freistellung gehört auch die Übernahme der angemessenen Kosten der notwendigen Rechtsverteidigung, einschließlich aller Gerichts- und Anwaltskosten, in gesetzlicher Höhe. Der Kunde ist verpflichtet, dem Verkäufer bei einer Inanspruchnahme durch Dritte unverzüglich, vollständig und wahrheitsgemäß alle Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen, die für die Prüfung der Ansprüche und eine Verteidigung erforderlich sind.

10. Einlösung von Geschenkgutscheinen

10.1. Gutscheine, die über den Online-Shop des Verkäufers käuflich erworben worden sind ("Geschenkgutscheine"), können entweder im Online-Shop oder vor Ort im Ladengeschäft des Verkäufers eingelöst werden.

10.2. Geschenkgutscheine und Restguthaben von Geschenkgutscheinen können bis zum Ende des dritten Jahres nach dem Jahr des Gutscheinkaufs eingelöst werden. Etwaige Restguthaben werden bis zum Ablaufdatum auf dem Gutscheinkonto des Kunden gutgeschrieben.

10.3. Geschenkgutscheine können ausschließlich vor Abschluss des Bestellvorgangs eingelöst werden. Eine nachträgliche Einlösung findet nicht statt.

10.4. Innerhalb einer Bestellung können mehrere Geschenkgutscheine eingelöst werden.

10.5. Geschenkgutscheine können nur für den Kauf von Waren eingelöst werden.
Der Kauf von weiteren Geschenkgutscheinen kann nicht per Gutschein bezahlt werden.

10.6. Sofern der Wert eines Geschenkgutscheins zur Bezahlung der jeweiligen Bestellung nicht ausreicht, kann zur Begleichung des Differenzbetrages eine der übrigen angebotenen Zahlungsarten verwendet werden.

10.7. Guthaben auf Geschenkgutscheinen werden nicht ausgezahlt und nicht verzinst.

10.8. Geschenkgutscheine sind grundsätzlich übertragbar.
Der Verkäufer kann mit befreiender Wirkung an den Kunden, der den jeweiligen Geschenkgutschein einlöst, leisten. Dies gilt nicht, wenn der Verkäufer Kenntnis oder grob fahrlässige Unkenntnis von der etwaigen Nichtberechtigung, der Geschäftsunfähigkeit oder der fehlenden Vertretungsberechtigung des jeweiligen Inhabers hat. 

11. Einlösung von Aktionsgutscheinen

11.1. Gutscheine, die der Verkäufer im Rahmen von (Werbe-)Aktionen mit einer bestimmten Gültigkeitsdauer unentgeltlich abgibt und der Kunden nicht käuflich erwerben kann ("Aktionsgutscheine"), sind nur im Online-Shop des Verkäufers und nur im vom Verkäufer angegebenen Zeitraum einlösbar.

11.2. Einzelne Produkte können von der Gutscheinaktion ausgeschlossen sein.
Die konkreten Beschränkungen sind gegebenenfalls dem Aktionsgutschein zu entnehmen.

11.3. Aktionsgutscheine können nur vor Abschluss des Bestellvorgangs eingelöst werden. Eine nachträgliche Verrechnung erfolgt nicht.

11.4. Pro Bestellung kann immer nur ein Aktionsgutschein eingelöst werden. Die Einlösung von mehreren Aktionsgutscheinen in einer Bestellung ist nicht möglich.

11.5. Der Warenwert der jeweiligen Bestellung muss mindestens den Betrag des Aktionsgutscheins erreichen. Etwaiges Restguthaben wird vom Verkäufer nicht erstattet.

11.6. Sofern der Wert eines Aktionsgutscheins zur Bezahlung der jeweiligen Bestellung nicht ausreicht, kann zur Begleichung des Differenzbetrages eine der übrigen angebotenen Zahlungsarten verwendet werden.

11.7. Das Guthaben eines Aktionsgutscheins wird weder ausgezahlt noch verzinst.

11.8. Der Aktionsgutschein wird ebenfalls nicht erstattet, wenn der Kunde die mit dem Aktionsgutschein ganz oder teilweise bezahlte Ware im Rahmen seines gesetzlichen Widerrufsrechts retourniert.

11.9. Aktionsgutscheine sind grundsätzlich übertragbar. 
Der Verkäufer kann mit befreiender Wirkung an den Kunden, der den jeweiligen Geschenkgutschein einlöst, leisten. Dies gilt nicht, wenn der Verkäufer Kenntnis oder grob fahrlässige Unkenntnis von der etwaigen Nichtberechtigung, der Geschäftsunfähigkeit oder der fehlenden Vertretungsberechtigung des jeweiligen Inhabers hat. 

12. Anwendbares Recht

Es gilt das Recht der Bundesrepublik Deutschland unter Ausschluss der Gesetze über den internationalen Kauf beweglicher Waren. 
Die gesetzlichen Vorschriften zur Beschränkung der Rechtswahl und zur Anwendbarkeit zwingender Vorschriften insbesondere des Staates, in dem der Kunde als Verbraucher seinen gewöhnlichen Aufenthalt hat, bleiben unberührt.

13. Gerichtsstand

Sofern der Kunde Kaufmann ist, eine juristische Person des öffentlichen Rechts oder öffentlich-rechtliches Sondervermögen mit Sitz im Hoheitsgebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ist der ausschließliche Gerichtsstand für alle Streitigkeiten aus diesem Vertrag der Geschäftssitz des Verkäufers.
Sofern der Kunde seinen Sitz außerhalb des Hoheitsgebiets der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat, ist der Geschäftssitz des Verkäufers der ausschließliche Gerichtsstand für alle Streitigkeiten aus diesem Vertrag, wenn dieser Vertrag oder Ansprüche aus diesem Vertrag der beruflichen oder gewerblichen Tätigkeit des Kunden zugerechnet werden können.
Dennoch ist der Verkäufer ist in den vorgenannten Fällen auch berechtigt, das Gericht am Sitz des Kunden anzurufen.

14. Informationen zur Online-Streitbeilegung

Die Plattform zur Online-Streitbeilegung der EU-Kommission ist im Internet unter folgendem Link aufrufbar: https://ec.europa.eu/odr

Wir sind zur Teilnahme an einem Streitbeilegungsverfahren vor einer Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle weder verpflichtet noch bereit.

Robin Kachfi - Skatepark Mannheim - BMX Edit 2016

Robin Kachfi is on fire right now. His progress is just awesome! His new Video was taken in his local Skatepark in Mannheim (Germany) and he says about it following words:

"I finished finally my video for kunstformbmxshop & my Crew at my local skatepark in mannheim germany. Thanks to everybody for the additional filming! This is dedicated to a legend of our time! Ride in peace Dave Mirra"

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Robin Kachfi X kunstform BMX Shop - BMX webedit 2016

Ladies and gentlemen,
we're very proud to show you the new webedit of our bro and BMX team buddy Robin Kachfi from Mannheim (Germany)! It's so amazin to see his progression and motivation! He used the winter time very usefull and got ready for upcomin BMX Season 2016! #robinforpresident :-)

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Music: Music: Ryan Little - thank you for playing god speed

Moritz Kuhn Is one of the youngest kunstform team members and he's already a real skatepark and dirt shredder

BMX Since: 2012
BMX Disziplin: BMX Park, BMX Dirt
Hometown: Aalen
Residence: Aalen
Sponsors: kunstform BMX Shop, Mom & Dad
Homespots: Backyard, Skatepark Heidenheim
Favorite Spots: Wendelstein, Local dirt spots
Favorite thing beside BMX: tennis, trampoline and skiing
Instagram: moritzkuhnbmx

Markus Schwital Is by far the best example that size doesn't matter at the BMX! Markus has been riding BMX Flatland for 11 years and his favorite spot is at the "Haus der Geschichte" in Stuttgart or when the sea is calling also in Barcelona

BMX Since: 2006
BMX Disziplin: BMX Flatland
Hometown: Mühlhofen
Residence: Stuttgart
Sponsors: kunstform BMX Shop / Maruel Clothing
Homespots: Haus der Geschichte in Stuttgart
Favorite Spots: Haus der Geschichte, BCN parc del forum
Favorite thing beside BMX: Party, Netflix, beer n fun!
Instagram: markusschwital
Youtube: markus schwital

BMX Flatland Stuttgart - Markus Schwital & John Krämer

Our team riders Markus Schwital and John Krämer filmed a new video on their favorite spot which is called "Kleiner Schlossplatz". How their session looked like, you can check in the video bellow. enjoy the video! Best regards, your kunstform BMX Shop

Video: Ulle

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One Day in Holland with Radio Bikes

Bro Robin Kachfi was with the Radiobikes team a few weeks ago on a BMX trip in Rotterdam, where the guys have produced a sick "one day" video at various skateparks around Rotterdam and The Hague. Enjoy the video! Best regards, your kunstform BMX Shop

Video: Sybren Planting

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Moritz Kuhn isn't just only 10 years old, he's now a real part of the kunstform BMX Shop Teams for the current team season 2017/18. Moritz takes part in every contest in the region with his 18inch BMX and mostly with success, as for example the "BMX Männle Turnier" in 2017, that recently went on stage, where Moritz got the first place in the amateur class. Reason enough to make a little Bikecheck with Moritz and his current whip!

Yo Moritz, where do you come from and how long have you been riding?

I come from Aalen (BW) and I got my first BMX 4 years ago ... and from where ... of course, from KUNSTFORM, I have a black-green 16 " Wethepeople Seed, which is now hanging in my room.

What is your favorite BMX video?

My current favorite BMX video is HARRYMAINIA 2

What bike setup do you have and what can you tell about it?

I am riding a black WETHEPEOPLE Curse 18 "and have pimped it up with a few parts like polished profiles elite hubs, polished profile stem, total BMX saddle and Oilslik chain from SaltPlus, since I'm on a clean design.

Frame: Wethepeople 18” Curse schwarz
Fork: Wethepeople SALT “AM 20” fork
Bars: Wethepeople schwarz
Stem: Profile Racing poliert
Headset: Salt
Grips: ODI
Barends: ODI
Tires: Salt Strike 18” x 2,2
Rims: Salt Valon
FW hub: Profile Elite poliert
BW hub: Profile Elite poliert
Spokes: Schwarz
Hubguards: -
Pegs: Liegen im Keller
Seatpost: Salt
Seat: Total schwarz
Crank: SALT “Rookie” crank crmo 165mm
Bearings: Salt
Pedals: Eclat
Sprocket: Salt 25Z
Chain: SaltPlus Oilslik
Brake: Odyssey

Anything else to talk about? Take your chance!

I would like to thank my family and the entire Kunstform team for the great and generous support. Many greetings to my homies .. A very special thanks goes to Markus Zieher (@markuszieher) for his support

Yo Moritz, thank you for your answers! We are glad to have you on board and look forward to the coming time with you!

Parksessions with the Nike-Team

Felix Prangenberg was after the Vans BMX Street Invitational Contest in Huntington Beach with his Nike team mates Garrett Reynolds , Chad Kerley and Dennis Enarson in Nevada, where the guys filmed a little skatepark video for Vitalbmx . Enjoy the video, your kunstform BMX Shop.

Video: Vitalbmx

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Markus Schwital Is by far the best example that size doesn't matter at the BMX!

Yo Markus, where do you come from and how long have you been riding?

I'm from Lake Constance (Uhldingen-Mühlhofen) but I live for two years in Stuttgart now and got my first BMX Bike 12 years ago!

What is your favorite BMX video?

Circel of Balance 2004

What bike setup do you have and what can you tell about it?

What I can say about my current setup is, that I prefer strong high-end BMX parts, which are mostly street parts

Frame: Sunday Soundwave 21"
Fork: Autum Fork with zero offset
Bars: Sunday Bikes Excelsior
Stem: Subrosa Topload stem
Headset: Odyssey Pro Internal
Grips: Odyssey Broc Raiford
Barends: Odyssey ParEnds
Tires: Ares Bikes 1.9"
Rims: eclat Trippin XL
FW Hub: eclat Dynamic
BW Hub: KHE Crisman Coaster
Spokes: Salt
Hubguards: eclat plastics
Pegs: eclat Venom in 4,5“
Seatpost: Salt Pivotal
Seat: Demolition Paradise Pivotal
Crank: Odyssey Thunderbolt 165mm
Bearings: Shadow Stacked Mid BB
Pedals: Odyssey Twisted PC
Sprocket: Subrosa Speed 25T
Chain: Shadow Interlock Supreme
Brake: -

Anything else to talk about? Take your chance!

I'm really in love with my current bike setup and I would like to thank kunstform for the amazing support! Also thanks to my parents and everyone else for the motivation and the support in my BMX career!

Yo Markus, thank you for your answers! We are glad to have you on board!

Freedombmx - HOW TO Nollie Barspin with Miguel Smajli

Our bro Miguel Smajli has filmed in cooperation with Freedombmx a short HOW TO video, in which Miguel will teach you the Nollie Barspin ! Enjoy the video, your kunstform BMX Shop Team!

Video: Freedombmx

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RADIO BIKES BMX PARTS GIVEAWAY with Robin Kachfi

Radio Bikes sent our team rider Robin Kachfi two brand new Radio Bikes Nemesis bars in copper, which you can win!
All you have to do is:


1. Follow Radio Bikes on Instagram

2. Subscribe to Robin's Youtube Channel

3. write below the youtube video, how did you started riding BMX (NO FAKE STORYS ALLOWED)


GOOD LUCK, Your kunstform BMX Shop Team!

Video: Robin Kachfi

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Simple Session 2018 - Webisode with Robin Kachfi

Bro Robin Kachfi produced in addition to the main Simple Session Videos, which you can watch right HERE , a new Webisode which shows you, how a weekend at the Simple Session looks like.

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Video: Robin Kachfi

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On the 17th of february 2018, the "Fight the Winter" Contest at the Kauf Park in Göttingen, Germany took place again, where a lot of crazy flatland combos happened! Watch the video of the best combos from the Fight the Winter contest right here!


Enjoy the video, your kunstform BMX Shop Team!



Filmed by Jan Rebuschat and Raffael Siegert

Edit by DasOwaL Productions

Music: Konecho https://konecho.bandcamp.com
Konecho - Ain't Nuttin' In Life




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On the 31st of March the Vans Invitational Contest took place again in Huntington beach. Huge Congrats to our bro Felix Prangenberg who visited California a few weeks earlier and ended up with the second place!

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Video: Vans



Music: France Camp. Song: C'est La Vie



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Our boys Markus Schwital and John Kraemer filmed a little flatland split edit during their vacation in Lisbon, which you can watch right here!

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Video: Markus Schwital



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Markus Schwital was recently in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for a video shoot. The location for this was the shell of the new youth hostel moun10, which is next to the Alps. The new modern moun10 youth hostel will open at the end of 2018. Since the start of construction, it has repeatedly served as a location for modern trend sports. If you want to win a free weekend for four people in moun10 with breakfast, sauna and free drinks, you should participate until 15 July 2018 on www.moun10-garmisch-jugendherberge.de.

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Video: Moun10



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Moritz Kuhn is just 11 years old and already a really good BMX rider, who's doing Barspins and 360s for breakfast. Watch his new video now on our Youtube Channel!

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Video: Robin Kachfi



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Robin Kachfi was with his homies on spot safari in Heidelberg, Germany. Check his whole adventure right here!

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Video: Robin Kachfi



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Markus Schwital produced a new Flatland BMX video with Robin Kachfi for kunstform, which the boys filmed within two days in Stuttgart. You definitely shouldn't miss that one!

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Video: Robin Kachfi



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Robin Kachfi filmed over the past 12 months a bunch of really good clips, which you can check in his latest edit on his Youtube Channel.

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Video: Robin Kachfi



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