Chrome Metropolis..

NeilMcEoigheann

Hey all, being the dirty single speed riding, fakenger, hipster etc that i am, i've decided that to improve my over all hipster standing, i must purchase a Chrome Messenger bag, (unless anyone has a better alternitive)
to this end i have also realised that Chrome bags are hella expensive so i really need to think about my purchase....
Where is the Cheapest place to get a Chrome Metropolis?
I hope you all got the tongue in cheek angle of my thread...

Vélo

Hey Douchebag,

Have a look on e-bay. I've seen a few 2nd hand ones there before.

Harrybelafonte

Have you had a peep in TK Maxx? They sometimes have Crumpler stuff, I got a Dhardly there a few years ago for real cheap (the under shoulder strap was missing). Here it is anyway:



Dhardly

rottenhat

well, I don't know about better...okay, I do, PAC bags are better, but they're certainly not any cheaper. I am in no way swayed in this opinion by the fact that I can be seen using one of their bags on their website. Proper messenger bags are expensive - they're quite specialized pieces of kit and are generally made by small companies. RE:Load make some very nice bags also.

Karma

Pac and Bailey bags are my favourite.

i think for th emoney, Bailey bags come out on top. try seagull bags, they do a generic black courier bag for about 100, bailey is 150/160. pac are 300+... and chrome are available on chainreactioncycles.
do you owe me a tube from a alleycat some time back...rookie

ps hi Eoghan, coming to th ebernard shaw today?

ROK ON

Pure curiousity here.

I can see why a messanger uses these style of bags for work.

Are they they useful/comfortable for a commuter? Just that they seem frightfully expensive versus my cheap (yet fantatsically comfy and useful) Gelert backpack.

Harrybelafonte

ROK ON wrote: »

Pure curiousity here.

I can see why a messanger uses these style of bags for work.

Are they they useful/comfortable for a commuter? Just that they seem frightfully expensive versus my cheap (yet fantatsically comfy and useful) Gelert backpack.

I prefer using them to backpacks, though at times with a lot of weight I feel like my lungs are being crushed

blorg

I would have thought the whole point of a messenger bag vs a rucksack is that a messenger bag is easy to swivel around to get stuff out of it, e.g. if you are picking up and delivering parcels.

Is there any other advantage?

rottenhat

No, I'd say they're inferior to a two-strap bag unless you're in a situation where you're going to need to access the contents of the bag repeatedly over the course of a day. After a while you start walking like you're in a bad production of Richard III from having the load on one shoulder.

Obviously, the good ones are built to endure several years of carrying heavy loads for several hours a day and are more or less waterproof. The average rucksack will disintegrate pretty quickly under the kind of treatment a courier bag gets. But this is also irrelevant for someone who just wants one for the look.

Too penniless for the goldsprints, sorry Karma.

TinyExplosions

I just find em more comfy and spacious than a two strap bag, as well as being more waterproof and lasting longer... I wouldn't mind giving something like this a go though, just to see the difference

Thomas_S_Hunterson

I've always found two strap bags very uncomfortable on the bike.

carmo13

check out this crowd. they make bags out of recycled columbian truck tyres!
www.bagzontherun.com/
bought one myself the other day.

ROK ON

TinyExplosions wrote: »

I just find em more comfy and spacious than a two strap bag, as well as being more waterproof and lasting longer... I wouldn't mind giving something like this a go though, just to see the difference

Thats a $260 backpack. Are you completely nuts?
Its like the $20 milkshake in Pulp Fiction.

it's mick

http://www.michaellinnell.co.uk/index.php?p=showprod&id=453&cat=Satchels%20and%20Trays

there's a minimum order of 50 pounds though as far as i know but i'm sure you could order two and sell the second no bother. they're supposed to be quite good.

TinyExplosions

ROK ON wrote: »

Thats a $260 backpack. Are you completely nuts?
Its like the $20 milkshake in Pulp Fiction.

That's the huge sized one, the regular one is more like 150 -expensive yes, but for the Rapha and Assos inclined amongst here, it's small change for a bag that will last longer than you do!

Raam

I got a Timbuktu, struggling to get used to it.