Just bought a 500 HO....doesnt have bumpers. looks like alot of exposed plastic to me. What do you think?

 

depends if you ride rough terrain and if your buddies are careless riders.....and beer might be a factor too

 

I've always gone with them. Never know when something will happen and they save your plastic. Cheapest place I've found them is on ebay. You can get a combo kit pretty reasonable.

 

my 2000 i had i made a bumper for it. its helped a few times. on my 08 i got one cheap. it will help but dont exspect to hit a tree and walk away with only a few bucks worth of damage.

 

I really like the front bumper I have, but if I had to do it over again, I would get an ATV Guru Bumper, they are very good quality from what I hear

 

Maybe not a must, but they sure are worth it imo!!

 

I agree not a must but if you ever banged a tree or another quad by accident you'd know that bumpers do offer a degree of protection...The plastice is very expensive to replace...IMO...

John

 

I went the first year without one. The only time I was wishing I had them when you or the guy in front gets stuck in a rut and the quad behind gives a little nudge. I wasn't able to help out or let anyone give me a push.

I just bought some off of ebay. $60 bucks for the front, back, and a rear grab bar (which im going to sell). they were bare steel which is no big deal because I got to paint them the color I wanted.

05-09 Polaris Sportsman Rear Bumper / Brush Guard : eBay Motors (item 320478511864 end time Mar-23-10 12:39:48 PDT)

05-09 Polaris Sportsman Front Bumper & Grab Bar COMBO : eBay Motors (item 220544929393 end time Mar-23-10 12:37:25 PDT)

I've got the rear on and once the snow is gone and I won't need my plow the front is going on.

 

Mostly for looks and driving over small brush. I used a rope to pull lightly when I was stuck in some mud and it nearly tore the rear bumper off- totally stripped out two attaching bolts. They are aluminum bumpers, bolted to aluminum brackets if that tells you anything. Even if you find a steel bumper, it's being attached via aluminum threads in an aluminum bracket. That's how it is on my 06 sp800 anyway.

 

the bottom two bolts pulled right out from the aluminum threads.