When you can bend them with a good kick they are too flimsy. Any impact period causes then to bend and give. On a big impact they simply fold and you wreck expensive things anyway.
Biggest thing for me is putting something on there that’s better then what’s there now like nothing lol but I would rather the bumper taking the impact and not casing the impact shifting its way threw the sled. I guess speed we’ll play a big factor tho haha and rocks and stumps don’t move to well either lol!!!!!Beg to differ on that, I’ve had 2 big impacts on those bumpers with my mountain cat, one a tree, my own fault for trying to thread the needle with hard wind blown snow and one a cutoff stump hidden at the top of a pillow drop. Both were hard hits, enough to ejecto seato over the bars and land ten+ feet in front on my head and no damage to the sled whatsoever, my bumper was twisted to f*ck but no intake or plastics or bulkhead damages whatsoever. I bent an A-arm on the tree one but that’s not what it protects, that was just how the sled deflected. And why are you kicking our sled so hard and bending the bumper? Anger issues? Lol jk but Unless they are making them thinner walled and cheaper than a couple years ago they hold up fine and look good