Chrome Barrage backpack review
Hard wearing bag for the road
GBP £170.00 RRP | USD $160.00 | EUR €200.00 | AUD $295.00 Skip to view deals
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Chrome’s Barrage backpack weighs in at 1,410g and has a heavyweight 1,050-denier, nylon waterproof outer. Its 22-litre capacity can expand to 33 litres, due to its roll-top design, and it measures 54cm tall, 30cm wide and 14cm deep.
The main compartment is waterproof lined with a simple laptop pocket. The main compartment is roll-topped and strapped down with a broad, two-inch web strap.
On the outside there are twin, open-mouthed pockets set on each flank at the base of the bag, big enough for a water bottle or a mid-sized lock.
The cargo-webbing strap system looks great and is heavyweight, plus it’ll expand to carry big items. The straps are hard wearing and the adjustable chest strap is held in place with a mini, quick-release buckle.
On your back
The mesh-backed strapping system on the Chrome offers plenty of support across the shoulders and sits high up your back. The body-shaped strap system with metal-fast compression adjusters means it does away with a waist strap, too.
On the bike it feels very secure while still giving you plenty of freedom to move. Its build is tough and it’s also backed with a lifetime guarantee.
The QR buckle plus no waist strap makes it easy to sling on and off quickly, but accessing the main compartment means unclipping and unrolling the top.
The Barrage will last for years (I’ve got a Chrome roll top that’s more than a decade old) but you have to be smart when packing it for your commute.
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Product Specifications
Product
| Price | br_price, 5, 3, Price, AUD $295.00EUR €200.00GBP £170.00USD $160.00 |
| Weight | br_weight, 5, 6, Weight, 1,410g, Array, g |
| Brand | br_brand, 5, 10, Brand, Chrome |
Features
| Features | br_Features, 11, 0, Features, Size: 54 x 30 x 14cm Capacity expandable to: 33l |
| Capacity | br_capacity, 11, 0, Capacity, 22l, Array, l |
Authors
Warren Rossiter is BikeRadar and Cycling Plus magazine’s senior technical editor for road and gravel. Having been testing bikes for more than 20 years, Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of road cycling and has been the mastermind behind our Road Bike of the Year test for more than a decade. He’s also a regular presenter on the BikeRadar Podcast and on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel. In his time as a cycling journalist, Warren has written for Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cyclingnews, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike and T3. Over the years, Warren has written about thousands of bikes and tested more than 2,500 – from budget road bikes to five-figure superbikes. He has covered all the major innovations in cycling this century, and reported from launches, trade shows and industry events in Europe, Asia, Australia, North American and Africa. While Warren loves fast road bikes and the latest gravel bikes, he also believes electric bikes are the future of transport. You’ll regularly find him commuting on an ebike and he longs for the day when everyone else follows suit. You will find snaps of Warren’s daily rides on the Instagram account of our sister publication, Cycling Plus (@cyclingplus).
