There's a peculiar ritual familiar to automotive photographers, travel filmmakers and anyone who's ever tried to fix a camera to the outside of a car. You press the suction cup down, work the lever, give it a tug, tell yourself it feels solid, and then spend the next 20 minutes in a state of low-grade existential dread. "Is it still on? Was that bump too much? How attached am I to this particular lens?"
In truth, although suction mounts have been a staple of location photography for decades, the tech has changed remarkably little. You stick it, you hope, you retrieve the camera intact, or occasionally you don't. Now, bicycle rack manufacturer Allen has decided that optimism should not be a product feature.
