Yep, I will probably need to play with the rear shocks too at some point and will need to give that some thought. Extension damping on mine is probably not controlled enough.

Long ago I tried some inexepensive CE 50/50 shocks in the rear but found them unliveable on the street (too stiff in compression/no good for Michigan potholes). In hindsight they might have been fine with a more compliant tire but at the time I was testing with stiff radials and that didn't work at all.