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@malutki: thanks for your response :-) Apologies for littering once more in your polite forum - I'd like to report the resolution of my "trouble case": After some time wasted by investigating my various options, I decided that my time was too precious for this and that I should spoil myself once more... and "bought my way in". I bought a new absorber, the McLeod by Manitou. And... even considering my instinctive need to justify the money I spent on it (and hence my positive bias), the McLeod seems to work great. It appears to be the cheapest shock absorber on the market that allows you to adjust both rebound *AND* compression, by two independent dials/levers. And of course the spring rate (air pressure). So my first interest was to dial the compression damping to minimum and... and it works. Oh the filthy feeling of a floating tail :-D Finally. Finally the rear suspension seems to work "the way it has always been supposed to work". (Now the front fork feels comparably a little stiff, but I have to be hard to myself. I don't want to shell out another 200 EURO for an air fork. I'll take a look inside the Manitou Match Comp, maybe it just needs a cleanup.) Thanks for your attention :-)

Dear gentlemen, apologies for English - I understand your language but cannot write it... I have a 2012/2013 Epicon LORP, I was considering taking a look inside - but looking at the bottom "nitrogen valve", I will probably just give it up. If I understand correctly, the "valve" is a riveted ball of aluminum in a 7.4mm hole. If I drill it away, there's no way for me to mount an automotive tyre valve in that. The hole is already too large for an M6 thread. Maybe make a conical adaptor tube and press-fit the tyre valve in that... doesn't sound very fruitful. Comments welcome. Feel free to delete this posting if the foreign language violates your rules. Thanks for your attention :-) Frank