Red Oxx - Big Bull Roll-up bag

This is one of the most useful bags I use for going on road trips. It's a bag that basically combines a luggage roll with packing cubes. 

It's incredibly well constructed, made not just in the USA but Made in Montana, which is stated on front. 

It's my go-to road trip clothes bag.

The bag unrolls to a length of 915 mm and you have 6 mesh pockets where you can store (and stuff) clothing for a time away. I particularly like it as it means fewer things to unpack and repack - a problem with packing cubes especially. Unrolling it or hanging it up you can see everything you've got within, without needing to unpack further. It also means that when it's time to leave I just roll it back up and take it back out to my ute. 

Unlike packing cubes, which are great, but you can forget things, this it's all attached, it's one thing to remember to grab. 

I have a separate dirty clothes bag that goes elsewhere, so this just contains clean clothes.

If I were doing longer trips than this bag could handle I'd probably pack a duffle bag with extra clothes and then at a point when this was mostly empty of clean clothes I'd cycle in new ones. But this can handle a surprising amount of clothes, rolled or stuffed in and then the whole thing strapped up.

When I bought it back in 2017, it was kinda pricey, but fine enough for a bag at $285 USD, plus $55 USD postage to Australia, totalling $340 USD all up. But now looking on their website it seems inflation and increased costs has got to its price quite a bit and it's now $450 USD, although postage is still $55 USD.

If I were reading this at this point I would probably be thinking 'is it worth it?'. As of 2023 that price of $505 USD is about $685 AUD. Looking through a site like Rushfaster.com.au and sorting price high to low on their various bag categories it reveals this price is way up there in the high prices of bags.

But...there's nothing much out there on the market that completely replicates it. However I'm not sure I would buy this now at that price, back in 2017 it was a gift to myself. Now though I think I'd just go for a duffle bag with compartments, or maybe one or two duffle bags that I'd just cycle clothes through or something. 

Full dimensions:

50.8 cm L x 20.3 cm W x 20.3 cm H rolled up
When open and laying out flat: 91.4 cm L x 50.8 cm W x  7.62 cm H (pocket height)
Capacity: 24.4 litres
Weight: 2.38 kg