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Originally Posted by gixxer.rob
Wouldn't being on the bike and therefore sitting on the insulated rubber of the wheels mean the lightening would not choose you as the point of contact ?
The path of least resistance to the ground...
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Only if there is another obvious path Rob. The lightning doesn't know you have rubber tyres and besides, I'm pretty sure it could arc over the distance of a tyre sidewall to the ground with out problem. Even if it doesn't you'll still fry - that stored energy has to go somewhere.
In a car it's not the four rubber tyres that protect you, it's the fact that the car frame acts as a Faraday cage - in effect, the reverse of a microwave oven where the Faraday cage stops the microwaves escaping..
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