Originally Posted by cyccommute
Every barend I've ever seen has a pinch clamp to hold them in place...even the cheapest ones. I have no idea what a "rail-like construction" is. A good cheap carbon barend are the
Titec Plutos .
The rail I refer to is the contact area of the pinch clamp. I've seen cheap ones with the contact area being raised off the bar by rails to make it look beefy. It looks like a one-sided I-beam wrapped around the bar.
Originally Posted by cyccommute
I've never seen a bar that is welded closed. Never. Every single one I've ever seen has an open end that is closed with a plug.
I stand corrected. I was sure I had seen bar ends "welded" closed but I was wrong. I searched for some pictures to show you but I found no "welded" ends. All I found was carbon bars with closed ends such as this one:
http://www.preisvergleich.org/pimage...D200001_20.jpg
I thought some of those were metallic.