Track handlebars - hand position

Edit: those charge bowl things you mention look like a copy of the kind of bars used in the 30s, on the track.

These look similar to me. The guy on the right seems to be using the forerunner to midge bars :)

I expect most people who have them ride around the stem where they put the brake(s) anyway, rendering the "drop" part superfluous.
Idiotic.

Might as well cut them down.

(+ further to my statment that the Charge Bowls would suit me. I run a TT brake lever on my left (euro style) drop, not on the top by the stem.)