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wethepeople "LKS 4PC" BMX Bar


The wethepeople "LKS 4PC" BMX Bar are the signature bars of the german flatland rider Frank Lukas and comes in a 4-pieced shape.

  • Material: full liquid post heat-treatment on 4130 "M2" crmo
  • Bar-Design: 4-piece
  • Geometry:
    Height: 9.75"
    Width: 28.7"
    Backsweep: 9°
    Upsweep: 3°
  • Clamping: 22.2mm
  • Model Year: 2024
  • Recommended for: Street
  • Extras: Frank Lukas Signature


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wethepeople "Bomb 4PC" BMX Bar


The wethepeople "Bomb 4PC" BMX Bar are the signature bars of the japanese flatland rider Naoto Tamaru and comes in a recognizable shape.

  • Material: full liquid post heat-treatment on 4130 "M2" crmo
  • Bar-Design: 4-piece
  • Geometry:
    Height: 8.25"
    Width: 26.8"
    Backsweep: 10°
    Upsweep: 4°
  • Clamping: 22.2mm
  • Model Year: 2024
  • Recommended for: Street


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wethepeople "Trigger" BMX Bar


The wethepeople "Trigger" BMX Bar comes in the usual quality and is a modern BMX handlebar made from 4130 CrMo.

  • Material: 4130 CrMo
  • Bar-Design:2-piece
  • Geometry:
    Height: 9.0" or 9.5"
    Width: 27.5" or 28"
    Backsweep: 11°
    Upsweep: 2°
  • Clamping: 22.2mm
  • Model Year: 2024
  • Recommended for: Street or Park


from 67.18 EUR





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Voxom "BRS19" Brake Pads


The Voxom "BRS19" Brake Pads are asymmetrically shaped and feature indentations to ensure good braking performance. The Voxom "BRS19" Brake Pads have a 4mm hex socket for easy mounting.

  • Contents: 1 pair
  • Size: Compatible for V-Brake and U-Brake
  • Extras: Asymmetric, 4mm Innensechskant


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Voxom "BRS15" Brake Pads


The Voxom "BRS15" Brake Pads are asymmetrically shaped within a mounting frame and feature indentations to ensure good braking performance. The Voxom "BRS15" Brake Pads have a 4-mm hex socket for easy mounting.

  • Contents: 1 pair of high-performance brake pads
  • Extras: Heat-resistant, angle adjustable, compatible with U-brakes and V-brakes


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Voxom "BRS2" Brake Pads


The Voxom "BRS2" Brake Pads are asymmetrically shaped and feature indentations to ensure good braking performance. The Voxom "BRS2" Brake Pads have a 4mm hex socket for easy mounting.

  • Contents: 1 pair
  • Size: 72mm for V-Brake and U-Brake
  • Extras: Asymmetric, 4mm Innensechskant


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wethepeople "Nova 20" BMX Bike - Glossy Raw


The wethepeople "Nova 20" BMX Bike - Glossy Raw is a modern equipped entry level BMX complete bike which offers you a solid parts of Salt, SaltPlus and eclat. The version of the wethepeople "Nova 20" BMX Bike - Glossy Raw comes with a super short 12.75" oval chainstay and 26mm offset fork allowing it to not only feel just like the bikes our PRO team ride, but also make it much easier to ride and progress your riding even further. In addition to that it comeswith a sealed and integrated headset so the maintaince effort is reduced compare to normal loose ball bearings. With its 20" top tube length the wethepeople "Nova 20" BMX Bike - Glossy Raw is the ideal allround BMX bike for young starters of the BMX sport and offers you the opportunity to let you check out all disciplines and to learn first tricks.

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • BMX Frame: 1020 Hi-Ten, welded U-brake sockets, Mid-BB, integrated headset
    Top Tube (TT): 20.0"
    Chain Stay (CS): 12.75"
    Head Tube (HA): 75°
    Seattube (SA): 71.5°
    BB-Height (BB): 11.75"
    Standover (SO): 8.38"
  • BMX Fork: Salt "AM 20", 1020 HiTen, 1-1/8" Ahead with 4130 CrMo steerer tube, 26mm offset
  • BMX Bar: Salt "Nova", 1020 Hi-Ten, 2-piece
    Height: 8.85"
    Width: 29"
    Backsweep: 11°
    Upsweep: 2°
  • Grips: Salt "EX", 154mm
  • Stem: Salt "PRO", frontload, 50mm reach
  • Headset: Salt "PRO", integrated headset, sealed bearing
  • Gyro: -
  • Gyro compatible: Yes
  • Brake Lever: Salt "AM", aluminum
  • Brake (rear): SaltPlus "Geo XL" U-brake, aluminum
  • Seat: wethepeople "Nova" Seat/Seatpost Combo, mid-padded
  • Seat Post: Seat/Seatpost Combo, aluminum, 25.4mm
  • Seat Clamp: eclat "Pure", aluminum
  • Pedals: eclat "Slash", plastic
  • Chain: Salt "AM" Z1 type, Standard
  • Sprocket: Salt "Gateway", steel, 25T
  • Crank: Salt "Rookie", 4130 CrMo, 3-piece, 165mm, 19mm Axle, 8 Spline
  • Bottom Bracket: Salt, Mid BB, 19mm, sealed bearing
  • Hub (front): Salt "Nova", aluminum, loose ball, 10mm (3/8") axle, 36H
  • Hub (rear): Salt "Nova", cassette hub, semi sealed, 14mm axle, 36H
    Driver: 9T RHD, loose ball bearing 510
  • Rim (front): Salt "Beam", aluminum, straight single wall, 36H
  • Rim (rear): Salt "Beam", aluminum, straight single wall, 36H
  • Tire (front): Salt "Tracer" BMX Tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Tire (rear): Salt "Tracer" BMX Tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Pegs: -


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wethepeople "Nova 20" BMX Bike - Matt Black


The wethepeople "Nova 20" BMX Bike - Matt Black is a modern equipped entry level BMX complete bike which offers you a solid parts of Salt, SaltPlus and eclat. The version of the wethepeople "Nova 20" BMX Bike - Matt Black comes with a super short 12.75" oval chainstay and 26mm offset fork allowing it to not only feel just like the bikes our PRO team ride, but also make it much easier to ride and progress your riding even further. In addition to that it comeswith a sealed and integrated headset so the maintaince effort is reduced compare to normal loose ball bearings. With its 20" top tube length the wethepeople "Nova 20" BMX Bike - Matt Black is the ideal allround BMX bike for young starters of the BMX sport and offers you the opportunity to let you check out all disciplines and to learn first tricks.

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • BMX Frame: 1020 Hi-Ten, welded U-brake sockets, Mid-BB, integrated headset
    Top Tube (TT): 20.0"
    Chain Stay (CS): 12.75"
    Head Tube (HA): 75°
    Seattube (SA): 71.5°
    BB-Height (BB): 11.75"
    Standover (SO): 8.38"
  • BMX Fork: Salt "AM 20", 1020 HiTen, 1-1/8" Ahead with 4130 CrMo steerer tube, 26mm offset
  • BMX Bar: Salt "Nova", 1020 Hi-Ten, 2-piece
    Height: 8.85"
    Width: 29"
    Backsweep: 11°
    Upsweep: 2°
  • Grips: Salt "EX", 154mm
  • Stem: Salt "PRO", frontload, 50mm reach
  • Headset: Salt "PRO", integrated headset, sealed bearing
  • Gyro: -
  • Gyro compatible: Yes
  • Brake Lever: Salt "AM", aluminum
  • Brake (rear): SaltPlus "Geo XL" U-brake, aluminum
  • Seat: wethepeople "Nova" Seat/Seatpost Combo, mid-padded
  • Seat Post: Seat/Seatpost Combo, aluminum, 25.4mm
  • Seat Clamp: eclat "Pure", aluminum
  • Pedals: eclat "Slash", plastic
  • Chain: Salt "AM" Z1 type, Standard
  • Sprocket: Salt "Gateway", steel, 25T
  • Crank: Salt "Rookie", 4130 CrMo, 3-piece, 165mm, 19mm Axle, 8 Spline
  • Bottom Bracket: Salt, Mid BB, 19mm, sealed bearing
  • Hub (front): Salt "Nova", aluminum, loose ball, 10mm (3/8") axle, 36H
  • Hub (rear): Salt "Nova", cassette hub, semi sealed, 14mm axle, 36H
    Driver: 9T RHD, loose ball bearing 510
  • Rim (front): Salt "Beam", aluminum, straight single wall, 36H
  • Rim (rear): Salt "Beam", aluminum, straight single wall, 36H
  • Tire (front): Salt "Tracer" BMX Tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Tire (rear): Salt "Tracer" BMX Tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Pegs: -


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wethepeople "Nova 20.5" BMX Bike - Matt Black


The wethepeople "Nova 20.5" BMX Bike - Matt Black is a modern equipped entry level BMX complete bike which offers you a solid parts of Salt, SaltPlus and eclat. The version of the wethepeople "Nova 20.5" BMX Bike - Matt Black comes with a super short 12.75" oval chainstay and 26mm offset fork allowing it to not only feel just like the bikes our PRO team ride, but also make it much easier to ride and progress your riding even further. In addition to that it comeswith a sealed and integrated headset so the maintaince effort is reduced compare to normal loose ball bearings. With its 20" top tube length the wethepeople "Nova 20.5" BMX Bike - Matt Black is the ideal allround BMX bike for young starters of the BMX sport and offers you the opportunity to let you check out all disciplines and to learn first tricks.

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • BMX Frame: 1020 Hi-Ten, welded U-brake sockets, Mid-BB, integrated headset
    Top Tube (TT): 20.5"
    Chain Stay (CS): 12.75"
    Head Tube (HA): 75°
    Seattube (SA): 71.5°
    BB-Height (BB): 11.75"
    Standover (SO): 8.38"
  • BMX Fork: Salt "AM 20", 1020 HiTen, 1-1/8" Ahead with 4130 CrMo steerer tube, 26mm offset
  • BMX Bar: Salt "Nova", 1020 Hi-Ten, 2-piece
    Height: 8.85"
    Width: 29"
    Backsweep: 11°
    Upsweep: 2°
  • Grips: Salt "EX", 154mm
  • Stem: Salt "PRO", frontload, 50mm reach
  • Headset: Salt "PRO", integrated headset, sealed bearing
  • Gyro: -
  • Gyro compatible: Yes
  • Brake Lever: Salt "AM", aluminum
  • Brake (rear): SaltPlus "Geo XL" U-brake, aluminum
  • Seat: wethepeople "Nova" Seat/Seatpost Combo, mid-padded
  • Seat Post: Seat/Seatpost Combo, aluminum, 25.4mm
  • Seat Clamp: eclat "Pure", aluminum
  • Pedals: eclat "Slash", plastic
  • Chain: Salt "AM" Z1 type, Standard
  • Sprocket: Salt "Gateway", steel, 25T
  • Crank: Salt "Rookie", 4130 CrMo, 3-piece, 165mm, 19mm Axle, 8 Spline
  • Bottom Bracket: Salt, Mid BB, 19mm, sealed bearing
  • Hub (front): Salt "Nova", aluminum, loose ball, 10mm (3/8") axle, 36H
  • Hub (rear): Salt "Nova", cassette hub, semi sealed, 14mm axle, 36H
    Driver: 9T RHD, loose ball bearing 510
  • Rim (front): Salt "Beam", aluminum, straight single wall, 36H
  • Rim (rear): Salt "Beam", aluminum, straight single wall, 36H
  • Tire (front): Salt "Tracer" BMX Tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Tire (rear): Salt "Tracer" BMX Tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Pegs: -


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wethepeople "CRS FC 20" BMX Bike - Trans Berry Blast | Freecoaster


The wethepeople "CRS FC 20" BMX Bike - Trans Berry Blast | Freecoaster comes as FC Version with a freecoaster rear hub, which will give you a freewheel during fakie riding. The wethepeople "CRS FC 20" BMX Bike - Trans Berry Blast | Freecoaster is a very modern and well equipped entry level BMX complete bike which comes for 2021 with fully sealed front and rear hubs! It offers you a very solid and stable equipment with parts like the famous eclat "Bios" pivotal seat, eclat "Surge" pedals or SaltPlus "Geo XL" U-Brake which will have enough spacer for fat tires. Here you already get a frame with a 4130 CrMo downtube that offers more stability and which has a integrated headset (sealed bearing) and a Mid BB (sealed bearing) which is today's standard on modern BMX frames and which makes installation, adjustment and maintance easy. With its 20.25" top tube length the wethepeople "CRS FC 20" BMX Bike - Trans Berry Blast | Freecoaster is the ideal BMX bike for young starters of the BMX sport and offers you the opportunity to let you check skateparks and BMX Street.

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • BMX Frame: 1020 HiTen, 4130 CrMo downtube, integrated headset, welded U-brake sockets, Mid-BB
    Top Tube (TT): 20.25"
    Chain Stay (CS): 12.75"
    Head Tube (HA): 75°
    Seattube (SA): 71.5°
    BB-High (BB): 11.75"
    Standover (SO): 8.4"
  • BMX Fork: Salt "AM 20", 1020 HiTen, 1-1/8" Ahead with 4130 CrMo steerer tube, 26mm offset
  • BMX Bar: Salt "CRS 20", 1020 HiTen, 2-piece
    Height: 8.8"
    Width: 29"
    Backsweep: 11°
    Upsweep: 2°
    Clamping Diameter: 22.2mm
  • Grips: Salt "EX", rubber, 154mm, without flange
  • Stem: Salt "PRO", topload, 50mm Offset
  • Headset: Salt "PRO", integrated headset, sealed bearing
  • Gyro: -
  • Gyro compatible: Yes
  • Brake Lever: Salt "AM", aluminum
  • Brake (rear): SaltPlus "Geo XL" U-brake, aluminum
  • Seat: wethepeople "CRS" Pivotal, mid-padded
  • Seat Post: Salt "AM", Pivotal, aluminum, 25.4mm
  • Seat Clamp: eclat "Pure", aluminum
  • Pedals: eclat "Surge", plastic
  • Chain: Salt "AM" Z1 type, Standard
  • Sprocket: Salt "Gateway", steel, 25T
  • Crank: Salt "Rookie", 4130 CrMo, 3-piece, 165mm, 8 spline 19mm spindle
  • Bottom Bracket: Salt, Mid BB, 19mm, sealed bearing
  • Hub (front): Salt "AM", aluminum, sealed bearing, 10mm (3/8") axle, 36H
  • Hub (rear): Salt "PRO", freecoaster hub, sealed bearing, 14mm axle, 36H
    Driver: 9T
  • Rim (front): Salt "Fraction", aluminum, straight single wall, 36H
  • Rim (rear): Salt "Fraction", aluminum, straight single wall, 36H
  • Tire (front): Salt "Tracer" BMX tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Tire (rear): Salt "Tracer" BMX tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Pegs: -


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Voxom "PE36" Pedals


The Voxom "PE36" Pedals are equipped with a CrMo axle to increase pedal durability. Grip tape and knobs on the surface provide traction. The body of the Voxom "PE36" Pedals is made from durable plastic.

  • Material:
    Pedal body: plastic
    Axle: CrMo
  • Thread size: 9/16" for 3-piece cranks
  • Scope of delivery: One pair of pedals (for left and right), 112.5mm x 115.5mm
  • Extras: Platform design, with grip tape, removable reflectors


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Voxom "PE34" Pedals


The Voxom "PE34" Pedals are equipped with a CrMo axle to increase pedal durability. Screw-in pins provide grip, and the body of the Voxom "PE34" Pedals is made from durable plastic.

  • Material:
    Pedal body: Plastic
    Axle: CrMo
  • Thread size: 9/16" for 3-part cranks
  • Scope of delivery: One pair of pedals (for left and right), 110mm x 95mm x 25mm
  • Extras: Platform design, 16 steel pins replaceable


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wethepeople "Audio 22" BMX Fork - 22 Inches


The   wethepeople "Audio 22" BMX Fork - 22 Inches   is a high-quality and solid BMX fork made of heat-treated 4130 CrMo. The timeless design of thies forkis based on the BMX disciplines Street, Trails and Bowl. The wethepeople "Audio 22" BMX Fork - 22 Inches is suitable for 22" inch wheel size.

  • Wheel Size: 22"
  • Material: 4130 CrMo
  • Steerer Tube Diameter: 1-1/8" (28.6mm)
  • Steerer Tube Length: 166mm
  • Top Bolt: M24 x 1.5 thread, 6mm allen key
  • Dropouts: Lasercut, 10mm (3/8") axles, 10mm (3/8")
  • Offset: 30mm
  • Bearing race: Integrated
  • Brake Mounts: without
  • Recommanded for: Street, Park or Trails
  • Extras: CNC machined 1-pc. steerer, tapered forklegs, double butted tubes, designed for 2.45" wide tires


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wethepeople "Chaos Machine 22" BMX Frame - 22 Inch


The wethepeople "Chaos Machine 22" BMX Frame - 22 Inch is the signature BMX frame from the Australian BMX Trails legend Tyson Jones-Peni and comes in a 22" inch version for 22" inch wheels. The wethepeople "Chaos Machine 22" BMX Frame - 22 Inch features a long and stable geometry and mounts for a disc brake (and regular U-brake).

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • Material: 100% 4130 Japanese CrMo, top tube and down tube gussets, butted tubes, integrated headset, integrated seatclamp, offset thickness dent resistant chainstays and mid bb for grind resistance
  • Geometry:
    Top Tube Length (TT): 22.25"
    Chainstay Length (CS): 14" (35.56cm) - 14.75" (37.47cm)
    Head Tube Angle (HA): 74.25°
    Seat Tube Angle (SA): 71°
    Bottom Bracket Height: 12.25"
    Standover Height (SO): 9.75" (24.77cm)
  • Seat Clamp: integrated
  • Seat Post Diameter: 25.4mm
  • Bottom Bracket: Mid BB
  • Dropouts: Investment cast, 6mm thick, 14mm slots, CNC machined, 4130 CrMo
  • Chain Tensioners: integrated
  • Brake Type: U-Brake & Disc Brake
  • Brakemounts: without
  • Brakemounts included with delivery: No
  • Gyro compatible: No
  • Features: Tyson Jones-Peni Signature, long trail geometry, disc mount for 120mm - 160mm rotors, 127mm high head tube, strut tube with larger radius, stiffer & stronger back end, larger weld on the head tube, wider dropout for wide 2.4" tires
  • Model Year: 2024


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wethepeople "Utopia" BMX Frame


The wethepeople "Utopia" BMX Frame is a modern technical BMX flatland frame and thanks to its curved top tube offers more space for tricks like PinkySqueaks and other BMX Flatland tricks.

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • Material: 100% Japanese Seamless 4130 CrMo, butted
  • Geometry:
    Top Tube Length (TT): 19.0" or 20.0"
    Chainstay Length (CS): 12.4" (31.5cm) - 13.2" (33.53cm)
    Head Tube Length: 4.6" (11.68cm)
    Head Tube Angle (HA): 75°
    Seat Tube Angle (SA): 71°
    Bottom Bracket Height: 12.0" (30.48cm)
    Standover Height (SO): 6.2" (15.5cm)
  • Seat Clamp: integrated
  • Seat Post Diameter: 25.4mm
  • Bottom Bracket: Spanish BB
  • Dropouts: Investment cast, 6.5mm thick, 14mm slots
  • Chain Tensioners: integrated
  • Brake Type: without (brakeless)
  • Brakemounts: without
  • Brakemounts included with delivery: not included with delivery
  • Gyro compatible: No
  • Features:
    - technical street/flatland frame, shorter top tube and lower seat tube for younger riders
    - hydroformed top and down tube for superior strength and stiffness
    - kinked toptube for increased foot clearance
    - frame comes with 14mm slot dropouts
    - extruded top tube with integrated threads for cable guides
    - tapered seat stays and chain stays with bullet tipped ends
    - curved seat stay bridge and chain stay bridge
    - wider rear triangle allows clearance for a 2.3" tire
    - WTP top tube and down tube gusset
    - 6mm seat clamp bolt


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wethepeople "Utopia Hybrid" BMX Frame


The perfect blend between Flatland, Street & Park, the wethepeople "Utopia Hybrid" BMX Frame takes DNA from many of wtp's current frames and blends it into a super tough, responsive and incredibly lightweight do-it-all frame. Just as capable in the streets as it is in the parking lot, the wethepeople "Utopia Hybrid" BMX Frame is also the chance for smaller and younger riders to ride one of the most advanced frames wethepeople have ever produced. Utilizing new super-lightweight hydroformed tubing and a crazy short chainstay, the wethepeople "Utopia Hybrid" BMX Frame is a frame in a league of its own.

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • Material: 100% Japanese Seamless 4130 CrMo, butted
  • Geometry:
    Top Tube Length (TT): 20.5"
    Chainstay Length (CS): 12.4" (31.5cm) - 13.2" (33.53cm)
    Head Tube Length: 4.6" (11.68cm)
    Head Tube Angle (HA): 75°
    Seat Tube Angle (SA): 71.5°
    Bottom Bracket Height: 11.8" (29.97cm)
    Standover Height (SO): 7.7" (19.56cm)
  • Seat Clamp: integrated
  • Seat Post Diameter: 25.4mm
  • Bottom Bracket: Spanish BB
  • Dropouts: Investment cast, 6.5mm thick, 14mm slots
  • Chain Tensioners: integrated
  • Brake Type: U-Brake
  • Brakemounts: with (screwable, M6)
  • Brakemounts included with delivery: not included with delivery
  • Gyro compatible: Yes
  • Features:
    - technical street/flatland frame, shorter top tube and lower seat tube for younger
  • riders
    - hydroformed top and down tube for superior strength and stiffness
    - frame comes with 14mm slot dropouts
    - extruded top tube with integrated threads for cable guides
    - tapered seat stays and chain stays with bullet tipped ends
    - curved seat stay bridge and chain stay bridge
    - wider rear triangle allows clearance for a 2.3" tire
    - WTP top tube and down tube gusset
    - 6mm seat clamp bolt


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wethepeople "Patrol" BMX Frame


The "Patrol" Range is a whole sub-brand of wethepeople which is heavily influenced from the trails and concrete park riding. The full line features a frame, fork and handlebar as well as stem, sprocket and barends. The wethepeople "Patrol" BMX Frame is designed to be run with a larger 28-9 gearing and with chainstay located brakemounts. The wethepeople "Patrol" BMX Frame pairs up a classic and satble geometry which is optimzed for trails and concret bowl riding.

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • Material: 100% 4130 CrMo, top tube and down tube gussets, integrated headset
  • Geometry:
    Top Tube (TT): 21.5"
    Chain Stay (CS): 13.6" – 14"
    Head Tube Angle (HA): 74.25°
    Seat Tube Angle (SA): 71°
    BB Height: 11.5"
    Standover Height (SO): 8.9"
  • Seat Clamp: integrated
  • Seat Post Diameter: 25.4mm
  • Bottom Bracket: Mid BB, heat treated, CNC machined
  • Dropouts: 6mm thick, 14mm slots, minimal size, not suitable for pegs, heat-treated
  • Chain Tensioners: integrated
  • Brakemounts: removable, pivot-3 (M6), not included with delivery
  • Extras: extended 125mm headtube, wide rear end for fat 2.4" tires
  • Model Year: 2021


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eclat "Force Male" Brakepads


The eclat "Force Male" Brakepads are made of soft rubber with a 6061-T6 alloy core and come with very solid brake force.

  • Material: Soft rubber with 6061-T6 alloy core


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eclat "Sniper" Brake Lever


The eclat "Sniper" Brake Lever comes with a hinged clamp which enables you to remove the lever without removing your grips.

  • Material: 6061-T6 alloy
  • Assembly Side: right
  • Length: medium
  • Clamp: 22.2mm
  • Hinged Clamp: with


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wethepeople "Reason FC" BMX Bike - Freecoaster | Matt Translucent Teal Raw Fade


The wethepeople "Reason FC" BMX Bike - Freecoaster | Matt Translucent Teal Raw Fade has a freecoaster hub which will allow you to ride fakie without pedaling. The wethepeople "Reason FC" BMX Bike - Freecoaster | Matt Translucent Teal Raw Fade is a really great equipped mid-class BMX complete bike with a 20.75" long frame including 100% 4130 CrMo quality with integrated headset and seat clamp, a Mid BB and full removable brake hardware. A high rised 4-piece street style handlebar, fork and the 3-piece crank set are made from 100% 4130 CrMo and build up a stable quality basic. The wheel set includes fully sealed front hub and a SaltPlus "PRO" freecoaster incl. hubguards laced into a double walled rim at the rear. A fat pivotal seat and great quality components like wethepeople "Logic" Pedale, eclat "Talon" U-Brake or wethepeople "Paragon Guard" sprocket made from alloy and nylon guard let the wethepeople "Reason FC" BMX Bike - Freecoaster | Matt Translucent Teal Raw Fade become one of the best mid-class BMX bikes you can get.

Note: The BMX bike comes with preassembled rear brake (U-Brake)

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • BMX Frame: 100% 4130 CrMo, tappered top tube and chainstays, removable brakehardware, integrated seatclamp, Mid BB
    Top Tube (TT): 20.75"
    Chain Stay (CS): 12.75"
    Head Tube (HA): 76°
    Seattube (SA): 71°
    BB-High (BB): 11.75"
    Standover (SO): 9"
  • BMX Fork: SaltPlus "Reason", 100% 4130 CrMo, 1-piece steerer tube, 15mm offset
  • BMX Bar: SaltPlus "HQ", 100% 4130 CrMo, 4-piece
    Height: 9"
    Width: 29.5"
    Backsweep: 11°
    Upsweep: 3°
    Clamping Diameter: 22.2mm
  • Grips: wethepeople "Perfect" Grips, flangeless
  • Stem: Salt "Zion", topload, 50mm Offset
  • Headset: Salt "PRO", integrated headset, sealed bearing
  • Gyro: -
  • Gyro compatible: Yes
  • Brake Lever: Salt "AM", aluminum
  • Brake (rear): eclat "Talon" U-brake, aluminum
  • Seat: wethepeople "Reason" Pivotal, fat-padded
  • Seat Post: Pivotal, aluminum, 200mm, 25.4mm
  • Seat Clamp: Integrated
  • Pedals: wethepeople "Logic", plastic
  • Chain: Salt "AM" Z1 type, standard
  • Sprocket: wethepeople "Paragon Guard", 6061-T6 aluminum with nylon guard, CNC, 25T
  • Crank: Salt "Revo", 4130 CrMo, 3-piece, square profile, 160mm, 8 Spline 19mm Spindle
  • Bottom Bracket: Salt, Mid BB, sealed bearing, 19mm
  • Hub (front): Salt "PRO", aluminum, sealed bearing, 10mm (3/8") axle, including 2x SaltPlus "PRO" plastic hubguard, 36H
  • Hub (rear): SaltPlus "PRO", Freecoaster, sealed bearing, 14mm axle, including 2x SaltPlus "PRO" plastic hubguard, 36H
    Driver: 9T RHD, sealed bearings
  • Rim (front): Salt "Valon", aluminum, single wall, 36H
  • Rim (rear): SaltPlus "Summit", aluminum, double wall, 36H
  • Tire (front): wethepeople "Activate" BMX tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Tire (rear): wethepeople "Activate" BMX tire
    Width: 20" x 2.35"
  • Pegs: 1 pair x Salt "AM" Peg


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eclat "Unify Slim" Combo Seat


The seat base and the seat post of this eclat "Unify Slim" Combo Seat are made from one piece of nylon and therefore much more stable but also lighter than conventional, externally connected seat/seat post combos . The nylon seat post is equipped with an inner aluminum core to keep the seat post in place of the seat tube of your frame when clamped. The non adjustable angle of the saddle, but also durable cordura cover are matched visually clean and the approx. 120mm long seat post of this eclat "Unify Slim" Combo Seat is designed for riders which prefer a low seat setup.

  • Type: Seat / Seatpost Combo
  • Material: Plastic
  • Cover: Synthetic leather
  • Padding: Slim
  • Seatpost: Nylon with 6061-T6 aluminum core, 120mm long, 25.4mm
  • Extras: stitched logo label, includes screwed handle covers on the downside (nose and backside)
  • Model Year: 2024


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Voxom "PE31" Pedals


The Voxom "PE31" Pedals are made of highly durable TPE plastic (Thermoplastic Elastomer) and are therefore suited to the extreme demands of BMX riding. The Voxom "PE31" Pedals are equipped with a 9/16" thread compatible with three-piece cranks.

  • Material:
    Pedal body: TPE plastic (Thermoplastischem Elastomer)
    Axle: CrMo
  • Thread size: 9/16" for 3-piece cranks
  • Scope of delivery: One pair of pedals (for left and right), 95mm x 95mm x 20mm
  • Extras: Platform design, removable reflectors, EPB bearing (Engineered Polymer Bearing)


20.97 EUR





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Voxom "Junior PE32 Pedals


The Voxom "Junior PE32 Pedals is designed for small feet and fits three-piece cranks with a 9/16" thread. The Voxom "Junior PE32 Pedals is equipped with a special EPB (Engineered Polymer Bearing) for durability.

  • Material:
    Pedal body: Plastic
    Axle: CrMo
  • Thread size: 9/16" for 3-piece cranks
  • Scope of delivery: One pair of pedals (for left and right), 85mm x 85mm x 18mm
  • Extras: Platform design, removable reflectors


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Voxom "Junior PE33" Pedals


The Voxom "Junior PE33" Pedals is designed for small feet, features grip tape for optimal hold, and fits three-piece cranks with a 9/16" thread. The Voxom "Junior PE33" Pedals is equipped with a special EPB (Engineered Polymer Bearing) for durability.

  • Material:
    Pedal body: plastic
    Axle: CrMo
  • Thread size: 9/16" for 3-piece cranks
  • Scope of delivery: One pair of pedals (for left and right), 112.5mm x 115.5mm
  • Extras: Platform design, with grip tape, removable reflectors


20.97 EUR





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eclat "Bondi" BMX Rim


The eclat "Bondi" BMX Rim comes with the new Design and with a width of 38mm. High quality 6066-T6 aluminum paired with a welded double box section hollow chamber structure and 17mm high sidewalls offer you here a very stable rim which ensures optimized fit and profile for wide tires.

  • Wheel Size: 20"
  • Material: 6066-T6 Aluminium, double wall, double box section
  • Connection: Welded
  • Holes: 36H
  • Width: 38mm
  • Height (Rim Wall): 17mm
  • Rim Wall: Straight (compatible with brakes)
  • Valve Hole Diamater: 8.5mm for schrader valve
  • Spoke Arrangement: Regular Laced
  • Extras: Extra wide, very strong rim with low side walls, offers 2.4" inch wide tires better profile properties, 2019er Design


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eclat "Unit" Brake - Oilslick


The eclat "Unit" Brake - Oilslick is a low-profile designed brake, compatible with rear brake mounts only. The eclat "Unit" Brake - Oilslick is constructed of 6066 forged alloy, and comes equipped with éclat's exclusive new brake pads and brake hardware.

  • Material: cold forged 6066-T6 alloy
  • Style: U-Brake
  • Specials: comes with eclat brakepads and required hardware (bolts, etc.), comes with unique cnc'd cable hanger, sleek low-profile design & forged alloy resists flex
  • Weight: 184g (complete)


60.46 EUR





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eclat "Unit" Brake


The eclat "Unit" Brake is a low-profile designed brake, compatible with rear brake mounts only. The eclat "Unit" Brake is constructed of 6066 forged alloy, and comes equipped with éclat's exclusive new brake pads and brake hardware.

  • Material: cold forged 6066-T6 alloy
  • Style: U-Brake
  • Specials: comes with eclat brakepads and required hardware (bolts, etc.), comes with unique cnc'd cable hanger, sleek low-profile design & forged alloy resists flex
  • Weight: 184g (complete)


48.70 EUR





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Analog Equivalent Rights (8/21): Using Third-Party Services Should Not Void Expectation of Privacy

Privacy: Ross Ulbricht handed in his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court last week, highlighting an important Analog Equivalent Privacy Right in the process: Just because you’re using equipment that makes a third party aware of your circumstances, does that really nullify any expectation of privacy?

In most constitutions, there’s a protection of privacy of some kind. In the European Charter of Human Rights, this is specified as having the right to private and family life, home, and correspondence. In the U.S. Constitution, it’s framed slightly differently, but with the same outcome: it’s a ban for the government to invade privacy without good cause (“unreasonable search and seizure”).

U.S. Courts have long held, that if you have voluntarily given up some part of your digitally-stored privacy to a third party, then you can no longer expect to have privacy in that area. When looking at analog equivalence for privacy rights, this doctrine is atrocious, and in order to understand just how atrocious, we need to go back to the dawn of the manual telephone switchboards.

At the beginning of the telephone age, switchboards were fully manual. When you requested a telephone call, a manual switchboard operator would manually connect the wire from your telephone to the wire of the receiver’s telephone, and crank a mechanism that would make that telephone ring. The operators could hear every call if they wanted and knew who had been talking to whom and when.

Did you give up your privacy to a third party when using this manual telephone service? Yes, arguably, you did. Under the digital doctrine applied now, phonecalls would have no privacy at all, under any circumstance. But as we know, phonecalls are private. In fact, the phonecall operators were oathsworn to never utter the smallest part of what they learned on the job about people’s private dealings — so seriously was privacy considered, even by the companies running the switchboards.

Interestingly enough, this “third-party surrender of privacy” doctrine seems to have appeared the moment the last switchboard operator left their job for today’s automated phone-circuit switches. This was as late as 1983, just at the dawn of digital consumer-level technology such as the Commodore 64.

This false equivalence alone should be sufficient to scuttle the doctrine of “voluntarily” surrendering privacy to a third party in the digital world, and therefore giving up expectation of privacy: the equivalence in the analog world was the direct opposite.

But there’s more to the analog equivalent of third-party-service privacy. Somewhere in this concept is the notion that you’re voluntarily choosing to give up your privacy, as an active informed act — in particular, an act that stands out of the ordinary, since the Constitutions of the world are very clear that the ordinary default case is that you have an expectation of privacy.

In other words, since people’s everyday lives are covered by expectations of privacy, there must be something outside of the ordinary that a government can claim gives it the right to take away somebody’s privacy. And this “outside the ordinary” has been that the people in question were carrying a cellphone, and so “voluntarily” gave up their right to privacy, as the cellphone gives away their location to the network operator by contacting cellphone towers.

But carrying a cellphone is expected behavior today. It is completely within the boundaries of “ordinary”. In terms of expectations, this doesn’t differ much from wearing jeans or a jacket. This leads us to the question; in the thought experiment that yesterday’s jeans manufacturers had been able to pinpoint your location, had it been reasonable for the government to argue that you give up any expectation of privacy when you’re wearing jeans?

No. No, of course it hadn’t.

It’s not like you’re carrying a wilderness tracking device for the express purpose of rescue services to find you during a dangerous hike. In such a circumstance, it could be argued that you’re voluntarily carrying a locator device. But not when carrying something that everybody is expected to carry — indeed, something that everybody must carry in order to even function in today’s society.

When the only alternative to having your Constitutionally-guaranteed privacy is exile from modern society, a government should have a really thin case. Especially when the analog equivalent — analog phone switchboards — was never fair game in any case.

People deserve Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights.

Until a government recognizes this and voluntarily surrenders a power it has taken itself, which isn’t something people should hold their breath over, privacy remains your own responsibility.




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Analog Equivalent Rights (10/21): Analog journalism was protected; digital journalism isn’t

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.

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Analog Equivalent Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded

Privacy: In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to the fact that we’re tracked when using cash today, too.

Few people pay attention to the little sign on the revolving door on Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It says that wi-fi and bluetooth tracking of every single individual is taking place in the airport.

What sets Schiphol Airport apart isn’t that they track individual people’s movements to the sub-footstep level in a commercial area. (It’s for commercial purposes, not security purposes.) No, what sets Schiphol apart is that they bother to tell people about it. (The Netherlands tend to take privacy seriously, as does Germany, and for the same reason.)

Locator beacons are practically a standard in bigger commercial areas now. They ping your phone using wi-fi and bluetooth, and using signal strength triangulation, a grid of locator beacons is able to show how every single individual is moving in realtime at the sub-footstep level. This is used to “optimize marketing” — in other words, find ways to trick people’s brains to spend resources they otherwise wouldn’t have. Our own loss of privacy is being turned against us, as it always is.

Where do people stop for a while, what catches their attention, what doesn’t catch their attention, what’s a roadblock for more sales?

These are legitimate questions. However, taking away people’s privacy in order to answer those questions is not a legitimate method to answer them.

This kind of mass individual tracking has even been deployed at city levels, which happened in complete silence until the Privacy Oversight Board of a remote government sounded the alarms. The city of Västerås got the green light to continue tracking once some formal criteria were met.

Yes, this kind of people tracking is documented to have been already rolled out citywide in at least one small city in a remote part of the world (Västerås, Sweden). With the government’s Privacy Oversight Board having shrugged and said “fine, whatever”, don’t expect this to stay in the small town of Västerås. Correction, wrong tense: don’t expect it to have stayed in just Västerås, where it was greenlit three years ago.

Our analog parents had the ability to walk around untracked in the city and street of their choice, without it being used or held against them. It’s not unreasonable that our digital children should have the same ability.

There’s one other way to buy things with cash which avoids this kind of tracking, and that’s paying cash-on-delivery when ordering something online or over the phone to your door — in which case your purchase is also logged and recorded, just in another type of system.

This isn’t only used against the ordinary citizen for marketing purposes, of course. It’s used against the ordinary citizen for every conceivable purpose. But we’ll be returning to that in a later article in the series.

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Analog Equivalent Rights (13/21): Our digital children are tracked not just in everything they buy, but in what they DON’T buy

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.




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Analog Equivalent Rights (18/21): Our analog parents had private conversations, both in public and at home

Privacy: Our parents, at least in the Western world, had a right to hold private conversations face-to-face, whether out in public or in the sanctity of their home. This is all but gone for our digital children.

Not long ago, it was the thing of horror books and movies that there would actually be widespread surveillance of what you said inside your own home. Our analog parents literally had this as scary stories worthy of Halloween, mixing the horror with the utter disbelief.

“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being surveilled at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual device was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they listened to everybody all the time. But at any rate they could listen to you whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard.” — from Nineteen Eighty-Four

In the West, we prided ourselves on not being the East — the Communist East, specifically — who regarded their own citizens as suspects: suspects who needed to be cleansed of bad thoughts and bad conversations, to the degree that ordinary homes were wiretapped for ordinary conversations.

There were microphones under every café table and in every residence. And even if there weren’t in the literal sense, just there and then, they could still be anywhere, so you had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard.

“Please speak loudly and clearly into the flower pot.” — a common not-joke about the Communist societies during the Cold War

Disregard phonecalls and other remote conversations for now, since we already know them to be wiretapped across most common platforms. Let’s look at conversations in a private home.

We now have Google Echo and Amazon Alexa. And while they might have intended to keep your conversations to themselves, out of the reach of authorities, Amazon has already handed over living room recordings to authorities. In this case, permission became a moot point because the suspect gave permission. In the next case, permission might not be there, and it might happen anyway.

Mobile phones are already listening, all the time. We know because when we say “Ok Google” to an Android phone, it wakes up and listens more intensely. This, at a very minimum, means it’s always listening for the words “Ok Google”. IPhones have a similar mechanism listening for “Hey Siri”. While nominally possible to turn off, it’s one of those things you can never be sure of. And we carry these governmental surveillance microphones with us everywhere we go.

If the Snowden documents showed us anything in the general sense, it was that if a certain form of surveillance is technically possible, it is already happening.

And even if Google and Apple aren’t already listening, the German police got the green light to break into phones and plant Bundestrojaner, the flower-pot equivalent of hidden microphones, anyway. You would think that Germany of all countries has in recent memory what a bad idea this is. It could — maybe even should — be assumed that the police forces of other countries have and are already using similar tools.

For our analog parents, the concept of a private conversations was as self-evident as oxygen in the air. Our digital children may never know what one feels like.

And so we live today — from what started as a habit that has already become instinct — in the assumption that every sound we make is overheard by authorities.