Multi I hate mystery smells...

[DG Rider]

I know we have a few linemen here...but I have an odd question.
While riding Friday, I got a hot/burning plastic/vinyl smell very briefly. I stopped and checked the machine out, but found nothing amiss, and no obvious source.
Then...later, i get it again, several miles away. Again, nothing on the machine is amiss. Nothing on the exhaust. No hot wiring that I could feel.

People will burn plastic out here in the fire pit...but this was midday, and the odds of 2 people doing it with some distance apart seems low, and the distance was far enough that I doubt it could have been from the same fire.

The one other common denominator to both times? I was under some of those big ass high voltage power lines. But...I don't remember ever smelling this near them before. It was a fairly cool day by az standards...probably the 50's.

Yesterday I went again and got nothing all day long.

 

[Smitty335]

I know we have a few linemen here...but I have an odd question.
While riding Friday, I got a hot/burning plastic/vinyl smell very briefly. I stopped and checked the machine out, but found nothing amiss, and no obvious source.
Then...later, i get it again, several miles away. Again, nothing on the machine is amiss. Nothing on the exhaust. No hot wiring that I could feel.

People will burn plastic out here in the fire pit...but this was midday, and the odds of 2 people doing it with some distance apart seems low, and the distance was far enough that I doubt it could have been from the same fire.

The one other common denominator to both times? I was under some of those big ass high voltage power lines. But...I don't remember ever smelling this near them before. It was a fairly cool day by az standards...probably the 50's.

Yesterday I went again and got nothing all day long.

??????????

 

[Backwoods]

I make my living working on transmission lines they won't have a burning plastic smell . I would think it came from your ride since it is new I would just wait and see if it happens again. I know you are a mechanic and would have found something obvious. Who knows it could have been something else.

 

[DG Rider]

I make my living working on transmission lines they won't have a burning plastic smell . I would think it came from your ride since it is new I would just wait and see if it happens again. I know you are a mechanic and would have found something obvious. Who knows it could have been something else.

It's got 890 miles on it😁.

I looked it over again today and can't find any signs of hot wiring. And like I said, nothing yesterday. Don't know...maybe it was just something blowing across the desert...or a piece of bag blew into the exhaust.