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     Fubar |
On my annual cruiseabout, I was caught in a wicked sand storm between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon. The weather report that night put the winds at 57 MPH. I felt every bit of it (a soda can blew past me when I was riding 50-55 mph) Too dangerous to stop (steep sandy shoulders and poor-poor vis) so I kept on for about 30 miles to Tuba City. Anyway, the oddest thing happened. I started getting electrical shocks whenever a body part touched metal. Felt like I had shorted and was getting a "spark" feed-through. After getting zapped on my leg by touching the *fuel tank* I decided to mostly ride with my hands on the controls. Zap zap zap... any time I was actually getting pelted by the red sand. When there was a break, the shocks would stop. More sand, the zapping returned. I am 100% sure I was not imagining it, and in the 1000 miles since, it has been fine. It has been three days and my middle finger is still sore. Has this every happened to anyone else? What the heck is it? Iron in the sand and a build-up of static electricity? | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
You have now joined the ranks of super heroes and are now Static-man. Saw Iron Man last night and that movie is just "GREAT". Worth it to see on the big screen. (Message edited by electraglider_1997 on May 03, 2008) | ||
| Etennuly |
Must have been really low humidity! I'm sand blasting some equipment to paint and it will need to be grounded before I can spray anything on it or the paint/primer does some weird stuff. Your riding suit have any nylon in it? | ||
| Fubar |
3% humidity the day before. Not sure on the day, but there was *zero* sweat at any time. Pretty amazing considering. Jacket is the Buell XRUJ (Vanson) and it's 90% nylon. Speaking of sand blasting, I now have perma-bug-spats blasted on to my fly/wind screens. Seems dried bug guts protected some of the paint. Interesting adventure to be sure! | ||
| Slaughter |
It is pretty common. I live in the desert and when we have high winds and blowing sand, you just zap each other, when you touch a ground, anything. We had to deal with it at our Inside Pass track day when we had blowing sand and wind gusts over 50MPH   | ||
| Mark_weiss |
Must have been really low humidity! Our dew point actually dropped below zero for a couple of days a week or so ago. Mark in Arizona |
