Would you pay $220 for a messenger bag? Me either. A hold-it-all messenger bag might be great for, say, a bike messenger who needs to carry packages from here to there, but for the rest of us they just end up as a shoulder-crushing sack, big enough to fit everything in there and therefore big enough to get very heavy. Better is a set of panniers, but if you’re riding fixed, the requisite rack will “spoil your lines”.
Still, there’s a lot to like about a bag which so shamelessly tries to do everything. The Skate Messenger Bag from Incase not only has a section for your skateboard (with plastic knobs to protect against abrasive grip-tape), it has a compartment for a notebook computer, a D-lock (or U-lock) holder, all manner of buckles, straps and fastenings, a rear strip from which to hang a light and a rather over-secure tie-down for a bike pump.
In short, if you own it, you can put it in this bag. Just think about that for a second — the notebook sleeve alone is big enough for a 17” MacBook Pro — that’s 3kg or 6.6 lbs right there. Add things up and you quickly arrived at some spine-twisting numbers. Our advice? If you need to carry that much, please fix it to your bike. Or, you know, consider leaving something at home.
Product page [Incase]
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