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Looking for something similar, I found this elastomer equipped (lighter, but more expensive option dated 2018):
https://road.cc/content/review/249893-redshift-sports-shockstop-suspension-stem
I saw this steel coil spring product on local social media today, and found the shopping listing:
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Personally, I think elastomers have some effect in the rebound area, and this steel spring, undamped unit is going to make you look like you're riding a clown bike as it bounces up and down, up and down. Also, it's heavy. Although at £23.50 I think it's going to grab a fair few customers who put it on, test ride it, then take it back off again!
There's still a viable option for a ludicrously expensive, genuine, damped gravel bike front suspension.
Quite like that. But I remember flexstems first time round, I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago, when they sorta kinda worked a bit til the elastomer shrank, which happened pretty much instantly, and after that you just had handlebars which weren't really connected to the bike. Luckily someone invented the suspension fork.
Luckily someone invented the suspension fork.
This.