RM125(02) showa midvalve mods, need spacer??

i am trying to make the forks on my rm a bit stiffer, they are way soft and i weigh 220lbs!. i thought a good way was bring in the midvalve a bit more into play. Currently, the midvalve is very weak, 4 X 0.1mm shims and no clamp shim!

20.1(2)
17.1(2)

with a lift of 0.2mm.

the problem i have is that there is no room to add more shims! the 6mm (id) X 8mm (od) spacer that seats inside the piston only protrudes 0.6mm from the surface of the piston, so it appears i need another one of these spacer/collars.

any ideas on where to get them?

has anybody messed with the midvalve on these forks?

i know 0.5mm is a good number for midvalve lift, but should i stick with 0.2mm on these forks?

thanks in advance

BC

jeremy. glad to have you back on the board- i heard you had joined a cult and spent your days sitting in a dark room chanting 'shimmmms', 'shimmms':)

the rm midvalve has been a bit of a journey for me- i was locked into the idea about using more midvalve etc, etc. i went with some taller posts and went with a more tapered stack with about 6-7 shims if i remember and a more classical 10 or 11mm clamp 8mm id shim thats floated. No matter what i did with the passive, the forks were always harsh. in the end, i went back to essentially the stock midvlave and got the forks working real nice with just passive mods. its interesting that the back plate on the rm midvalve measures at ~11.5mm, so if you think of that as the "clamp" shim i suppose you would think of the stack as being stiff, but, since there are only 4 big shims, i think they kind of "cone" rather than bend accross a clamp.

now the yz midvalve, there is a constant source of frustration!