I rediscovered this thread about struggles learning handlebars last week:
It took me maybe a month or six weeks to get comfortable with bars, and I figured that was my usual very-slow-but-more-or-less steady progress on any new skill. Actually, for a change, this might be one thing I picked up pretty quickly by comparison. Not that I’m comparing. 
Dunno about anyone else but I don’t consider that as cheating. 
I take both hands off when the road surface gets tricky, or if I need to make a tight turn or fit through a tight space. Sometimes my upper body needs to move freely for quick corrections.
Yay!! 
I learned to use bars on the same unicycle with the same bars as Lance and I’m very comfortable with it. I guess that points to how well he put that setup together.
There might also be something to the idea that bars are a bigger advantage on a 36" unicycle, which are heavy and unwieldy with or without bars, and so there’s more reward to using them, even badly. Then that skill can be transferred to smaller wheels. I’m still kicking around the idea of sticking some on my 700c/29" road uni but haven’t done anything about it yet.
Agreed! They aren’t exactly cheap and I was reluctant to buy a set with no idea of whether I’d like it. (Still am.) I took a shot with the Nimbus Shadow handles because they were already on Lance’s Coker and it seemed like he’d worked out and tested a good solution already.
That’s the point of the metal stiffener plate that comes with the T-bar, right? I assume it ties the front seat bumper to the top of the seatpost. There don’t seem to be many (any?) complaints about that at least.
Seatpost or seat tube clamp, front bumper mount, and cradle with integrated seat mount (E.g., Shadow and built into Nightfox frames) seem to be the three major families.
Looking at the picture, I get a feeling there’d be a lot of weight far away from the seat and a high moment of inertia. Just a guess, but that would make it harder to change direction, especially when you take your hands off in some critical situation. It’d be a lot worse than having no handlebars then. Dunno if there’s any way to put a simple cross bar and a pair of light bar ends on your boom to compare it with. It’s too bad that there aren’t more interchangeable options and bits and pieces that can be swapped around without spending a fortune or having rare fabrication skills.
It’s only worth doing if it makes riding better and more fun. No law says you have to have handlebars. Thanks for the update, and good luck with it.