I think it might depend how you ride. I'm planning to get a trekking bar eventually, but I don't ever want by hands that close. I want to have the stability of a flat bar plus hand positions that seem a little more like drop, aero, or climbing bars for when I have to fight 30 mph headwinds (like today, for instance). I don't want a position that simulates a cruiser, which it seems would be much of the purpose of having the curved part practically in your ribcage.

I haven't gotten it yet but it seems to me the great thing about this type of bar is that it can be used so many different ways. So the way one person might set it up for one riding style might not be the same way somebody else would use it.