Show me a concept design which combines a transforming bicycle with a camera tripod and there's no way I can't write about it immediately. And here it is: the T-bike, which manages to combine two simple devices into one complex machine that doesn't do either task very well.
The T-Bike looks like a folder but isn't, which makes it hard to forgive those tiny wheels. It also has one of those weird cantilevery seats that hang off the back, but at least the frame itself looks fairly stiff.
Or does it? You know how all but the very best tripods wobble a little at the sliding joints on the legs? The T-Bike uses these joints in the frame so you can make it taller or shorter for shooting pictures. Sadly, this requires adjusting three tubes to get much less than a foot of travel. Better to just make an extending head-tube, don't you think?
Which brings us to the tripod mount up on the handlebars. If you want to put a camera on your bars, then there are many, many adapters available already.
But it's not just me who suspects that the designer has never ridden a bike ([cough] thumb-operated brakes [/cough]). Take a look at the comments on the Yanko design post for a whole laundry list of problems.
Still, if you're a cycling photographer, the answer is clear. Take your existing bike, and strap your tripod to its rack. Free, easy and way, way better than this CG toy.
Tripod Bike [Yanko]
