Chas, when those things first came out we called them elephant IUDs.

There was also a sudden rash of crumpled forks and bent frames from people crashing while using them. The switch from your body being sprung weight to unsprung weight on the front end made potholes deadly. Of course al of those mid-life crisis triathletes riding grillion dollar bikes with those bars, and little or no experience riding them didn't help.