Originally Posted by NightShift

I've looked at the trekking bars but haven't tried them.
I have tried a couple different northroad bars and been very happy with them.

I've also been looking at some of the dirtdrop style bars, and I think I'll be getting a woodchipper soon. They can be used with a mountain bike stem and shifters, or brifters. I'm thinking to keep my current shifters (for now) and get a set of road brake levers. You can get road type brake levers in standard short pull (for caliper and cantilever brakes) or long pull (for V-brakes), but canti brakes are cheap and readily available, not that hard to convert to if you have v-brakes (I'll be using a bike that currently has cantis, but I've done the conversion before) and canti brakes will work if you switch to brifters later. And the options for v-brake road levers is pretty limited.