A few years ago I read a magazine item from a mountain biker who stopped on a hilltop below high voltage power lines, and as he stood over his top tube he felt his hair stand on end, then he got an unpleasant shock in the um...groin.

Today there's a thread in the road bike forum started by a guy who got several shocks from his bike and from a guardrail under some power lines yesterday - makes me wonder how often this happens.

I suspect quite a few mountain bike trails go along power corridors. Anyone get shocks like that ever?