I ride the Easton carbon version of the same on the track and have to say they are stiff, comfortable, and you can rest your hands on the aero flat center portions just fine. Do note that you will need a very different stem length, and also that you can only mount them with an open-face stem bar clamp -- if you're on a quill stem, this gets difficult, so you pretty much need to use a Nitto threaded-to-threadless adapter plus a threadless stem, or find an old Salsa or something like that that works.