Originally Posted by
RTDub
I had a set of the Trekking bars, and while they were pretty cool, they did not add any real benefit to my ride. The difference between the front and back bars is so significant, that you're either too stretched or too cramped unless you ride on the sides. This turns out to be more of a cowhorn setup with lots of extra bar you don't use. If they made a mustache bar that dropped the sides a little, to make it more of a flared drop setup, I'd go for that like Hall and Oates.
That sounds like my experience. With my preferred position being on the sides, which didn't have room for breaks or shifters, I switched to a swept back bar, but I did use the other parts of the trekking bar, just not enough to justify a set up where my shifters and brakes were not where my hands usually were.
As for mustache bars with a drop, that's how I use my Albatross bars. They're flipped, so that grabbing the ends is a little lower then grabbing the bends.