Riding my bike & ESD............

Nov 05, 2010 2 Replies

I was riding my bike along a river side boardwalk that had continuous plastic decking & I noticed when I put my hand near the brake levers I'd get a really decent ESD zap.



I was listening to AM radio, the decking his held to the underlying wooden structure using what looks like stainless screws at ~4" intervals.



As the bike tyre runs over the screw heads it seems to discharge the charge making a nice little 'tuck' noise in my earphones as each screw is passed.



I thought it was kind of neat.


Just think you could use it to calculate your speed.......

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