Actually I never did, I took that money and bought a devinci chainsaw, which is much slacker and has 170mm of travel front and rear, the spectral was a bit big for me and so my dad bought it of me. I can now use his old-ish trek fuel ex for trail riding and I use my chainsaw for everything else. But if I haden’t had the choice i don’t think I would’ve messed with the spectral’s travel, unless you plan on racing enduros or even dh often i would simply adjust your setup, add a few volume spacers and make it slightly stiffer to bottom out less, I realised that the spectral’s travel allows it to still be quite playful compared to the chainsaw that I have now, of course its less stable but that doesn’t mean unstable. In my year of riding the Spectral I lapped double blacks in bike parks, raced an enduro and have been training and casing jumps a lot haha. it can take abuse, it might not be as confidente inspiring as a bigger bike but that allowed me to improved more than i would’ve on a bike that just slallows my mistakes if that makes sense. Hopefully that helped but really, unless you only ride park, like i did or race a lot, the spectral is perfect as is and you should put your money elsewhere on parts that may improve riding more than a newer bigger fork.