Hello everyone,
I'm on the fence about adding a front bumper to my X3 XRS and I thought I would ask for some opinions of you experienced riders with bumpers.
I'm doing mostly desert trail riding with some rock crawling (will go to Moab soon), will go to the dunes, and a little forest riding. I'm adding the S3 gusset and bulkhead, but still on the fence about the S3 front bumper simply because of the extra weight and it does hide some of that aggressive front end look of the X3 I like so much.
I saw an X3 in a shop the other day that did a 30' foot front end drop over a dune and the guys is lucky to walk away unhurt. He had a stock X3 with a lot of front end damage, maybe totaled, so it got me thinking to start adding more protection up front. I also had a friend of a friend who died at the dunes from a 70' drop front end landing. The steering wheel caved his chest in on that one I'm told. That poor guy was his first day of riding a new machine, not an X3.
So what are some of the pro's vs. cons of adding a front bumper to the X3?
Thanks
I'm on the fence about adding a front bumper to my X3 XRS and I thought I would ask for some opinions of you experienced riders with bumpers.
I'm doing mostly desert trail riding with some rock crawling (will go to Moab soon), will go to the dunes, and a little forest riding. I'm adding the S3 gusset and bulkhead, but still on the fence about the S3 front bumper simply because of the extra weight and it does hide some of that aggressive front end look of the X3 I like so much.
I saw an X3 in a shop the other day that did a 30' foot front end drop over a dune and the guys is lucky to walk away unhurt. He had a stock X3 with a lot of front end damage, maybe totaled, so it got me thinking to start adding more protection up front. I also had a friend of a friend who died at the dunes from a 70' drop front end landing. The steering wheel caved his chest in on that one I'm told. That poor guy was his first day of riding a new machine, not an X3.
So what are some of the pro's vs. cons of adding a front bumper to the X3?
Thanks