SMOOTHER RIDE?

shock are 20 years old, wouldn't new bars make it stiffer?

Sound like you are bottoming out. Whole front end compresses down and bottoms out?

You got stiff rear and soft front. A far out thing would a naturual frequency deal. Hard to internet diagnose (as all this is). And sort of a stretch.

But yea stiffer on little bumps and dips.

Start with just shocks though. Go from there. IIRC, like $10-15 ea for monroes.