Peak Design is no stranger to innovation, particularly in the bag space. However, the brand has, for most of its tenure, focused on the kinds of packs you haul on your back or over your shoulder.
It turns out that the brand’s flair for pushing boundaries translates magnificently to a different bag category — one particularly crucial to jet-setters everywhere: carry-on luggage.
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The Peak Design Roller Pro Carry-On is the brand’s first at-bat with wheeled luggage, and boy did the brand swing for the fences. While not the first to do it, this bag combines the toughness of hard-sided bags with the versatility and expandability of soft packs in some novel, innovative ways.
That starts with its exterior, a lightweight, ultra-tough polycarbonate wrapped in the brand’s weatherproof, scratch- and abrasion-resistant Versa Shell fabric. That outer is mated to a quartet of easy-gliding, omnidirectional wheels and, one of its best innovations, a remarkably thin (only 7 millimeters) carbon fiber telescoping handle that’s far more slender and stronger than traditional ones.
