this summer i was riding in a gravel pit and stopped on the scale.
960 pounds with me on it. the scale registered in 20lb increments. i thought to myself, that is one heavy @#%&*!
now we have 8 inches of snow on the ground and i'm glad it's an 800lb machine. just today i was drift busting with it and got high centered. i put it in reverse and backed right out. not like the old days on the 200x where if you didn't make it, grab a shovel.
gage is not impressed with this much wet heavy snow, his new scrambler 50 barely moves through it.
speaking of which, does anybody have a good idea for a front bumper device that i could whip up out in the garage? my goal is to be able to nudge the 50 when he gets stuck (rather than push/pull him out by hand), but my winch usually lines up perfectly with his rear tail light.
i don't have a bumper on front, just a warn winch.

 

Bret

I know this will sound silly, but bear with me. I go to a lot of dirt track auto races and the racers all use atvs to push the race cars around the pits. Most of them have just simply welded a front bar on the machine in a vertical fashion that stickes out about 3 inches from the front of the quad. The bar would extend vertically below your winch and would have horizontal supports running to the frame. I know I am not explaining this well, but use your imagination and some tube steel and I bet you will come up with a push bar design that will work for you.