It might help if you explain WHY you want to remove it. If you just think it's gone bad, my number one chrome restorer as a kid was polish and fine grain sandpaper. Mostly that's not rust, it's just dirt. The wheel or handlebars could look like new again, usually no matter how bad they were.
Then there IS a sort of chrome damage you can't fix. That's when it's peeling like tape. Is it just tape? I'm not sure. Is it not even chrome, perhaps aluminum?
The common approach is to use acid according to just what material the chrome itself IS. You might use sulphuric acid if it's high nickel, hydrochloric acid for chromacoat , but then how do you know what you're really trying to remove? There's also the idea of getting it off the same way it got on there, with an electrical charge in the bath. Yikes! But I hear stories of just dump it in a plastic tub with water and different crazy stuff like drano, hook up some jumper cables to each end of it and a car battery, etc. Oh, I don't think you want to be breathing around this. If it does work, that's some awful stuff in that tub when you're done. (Ever see a movie called 'Erin Brockovich?') What will you do with it? (I do hope I'm scaring you.)
Heavy grit sandpaper is a low risk way of removing it, some work involved. Wear goggles and a mask if you sand aggressively. Most people don't have even a cheap sand blaster at their disposal. If you're wanting to powdercoat, you don't need all the chrome off, you just need to get off what was flaking, make it somewhat smooth, etc.
