So, I have got my TE back after three weeks with souped up suspension and it works great. I have done today quick 30 km enduro trip including lots of whoops in a bush and lots of rock. The suspension - especially front finally works as it should. It is plush in initial strong, but then gets quickly progressively harder to prevent bottoming. My biggest issue on standard suspension was almost no deflation of quick hits (rocks, edges, etc.) and that is now all resolved to my satisfaction. As it stands suspension (mainly forks) stopped to be main limiting factor offroad - now TE is for me limited only by its weight and that is fine as I use it primarily for adventure trips. I'm completely ignorant in things suspension, so I just tried to memorize as best as I can what the guy who did my suspension did. It may very well be complete nonsense, but here goes: after lots of profanities when talking about standard forks, he said that he changed some shims (is that a word?), but main problem from his point of view was that compression rod did go straight against metal stop without any compression valve in place. So he added the valve. He did not change the travel to 300 mm as I originally asked him - something about not being able to get right spacers. However it works fine now so I'm not going to chase that.
