Both mine and my wife's are doing this.
No electrical systems mods.
My wife's has the "Polaris" Warn winch and mine has the Gorilla. I installed them both.
Mine started doing it before the install and hers never did it till last weekend.
Weird thing is, both have never done it anywhere but the desert north of Reno.
Any ideas?

 

Described "shocked". Normally a human can't feel a 12 volt DC potential, which is all you're getting from the battery. The only place I can think of that has higher potential is the ignition system.

 

It's strong enough so that you can definitely feel it. Mostly the right palm and throttle finger though occasionally the left palm.

 

Weird. 12 volts DC isn't enough to shock someone. To test, try touching both posts on your battery with your fingers - you won't feel any current (usually, unless you have an open wound or your hands are covered in salt water or something).

Besides that, nothing you are touching should be "live". Rubber grips, right? Or is this when you touch the handlebars directly?

And it comes and goes with your **location**?!? As in, geography affects it?

 

dry desert air = static electricity just like in the winter you get shocked more by carpet, cars, etc when the heat is on

 

Oh, if it's just a momentary sensation then I agree - it's probably static.

I was presuming he meant a continuous sensation like a normal "electric shock".

 

It happens every couple of minutes, it's not a constant shock.
never even thought of static electricity being the cause.