So my daughter was "teaching" her friend to ride. Then she parks the wheeler and goes in the house as if nothing happened. I go out to the barn to find it neatly parked in its spot, but something doesn’t look right. Uppon closer inspection, the bumper was shoved into the plastic, bent and cracked. The upper rack is ripped out of the fender mounts and plastic cracked. The left mounting leg of the rack broke off. :icon_cussing:

So I found a great deal on a straight (all bars and mounts not bent) used front rack on ebay for $60 and decided to build the bumper.

Drew out the plans and went to my local steel supply shop and bought 18 feet of 1" medium duty square tube for $24. I have never attempted to build something like this before. This is also the first use of my mig welder (recent anniversary gift).

Here are pics of the process so far…

First I need to modify the winch plate mount. I will integrate a new winch hawse into the new bumper.