I have had them a week or so and I like them so far. I bought them for 2 reasons...to give a couple extra hand positions to help with numbness and to give a different back position. They seem to work for both issues for me. I would say when I am riding, I am pretty evenly split between the down position, the top position and my regular MTB bar positions.

I think if you bought them thinking they would be just like using drop handlebars on a road bike, you would probably be disappointed. Do to the width and design of an MTB handlebar, the geometry of an MTB bike and the fairly small size of the bar ends, I do not think it feels like being in the drops on a road bike. No brake hoods either for that position. But as bar ends for a mostly road ridden MTB, they feel pretty good for my issues.

I didn't really like any of the regular bar ends I have looked at. Getting more upright with the longer ones or just having a small nub on the end didn't seem like it would help me for what I was looking for. I decided to try these first instead of trekking bars. When I installed them, I moved my brifters in an inch and put handlebar tape over the bar ends.