Originally Posted by MassiveD

I think the question on housings as with everything else is that at the low end the cost is trivial, so who wants squishy less effective housing? Show of hands for ineffective crap housing you probably paid more for, if you don't own pliers and do your own work. There is always some cheap ass in touring who if you ask them do they want to pay a buck extra for a better product will say they could fly to Hanoi and tour for a month on that buck. But for some of us I don't want to pay more to get a crappier product, shoot me.