Now you can strap your iPad (or phone) to your handlebars

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We get a lot of press releases here at Singletrack Towers. Some are relevant and interesting, some are ‘close, but not worth following up on’. And others are obviously because we’re obviously on a PR mailing list for ‘vaguely outdoor lifestyle products’. Sometimes this nets us press releases about new luxury clubbing hotels in Ibiza, and sometimes we get the opportunity to read about a new way to clamp “a camera, phone or camcorder to your bike!”

Is it a tripod? Is it a clamp? No, it’s the new Clampod!

And, while we try not to re-quote press releases, this one is so endearingly enthusiastic, we thought you’d like it.

It’s time to bolt your £600 phone to your handlebars!

“A versatile new device has been introduced into the UK and Ireland by Kenro which allows you to securely fix a camera, phone, flash or tablet to a variety of objects – especially cycles.

“The new Takeway Clampod T1 is manufactured from aerospace grade aluminium alloy, making it lighter and stronger than many other camera clamps – weighing just 200g, including ball head.

“Designed to firmly hold most photo and lighting devices in place, the Clampod T1 is supplied with its own ball head with quick release mechanism (load capacity 3kg), or users may use their own if required. The clamp body has a maximum load capacity of 40kg.”

And so on… The MD of the company even says “We see it as a must-have accessory for every cyclist.”

The Takeway Clampod T1 has an SRP of £59.94 and, hopefully comes with an answer to the question “Buy why would you?” – something we tried to answer when we did our Smartphone Holder Test recently.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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