both my blasty's have dampners, and you won't catch me ever riding without one again, beside preventing arm hand fatigue, as you barely have to grip the bars in most moderate riding stuations, and they have both saved my ass plenty of times, mainly from the bars getting ripped from my hands during high speed impacts, preventing a certain roll or shooting of the trails into the trees.
i have an old denton on the black bike, and a rebuildable streamline billetanium on my bike < mmmmmm