Originally Posted by
myrridin
If you want to look up specific probability for cyclists, then be my guest. Frankly the general environment, such as the mountaintop or open plain I cited, are much more likely to increase the probability of being struck. Frankly the odds of getting hit while riding unsafely (which the op admitted to) in a heavy rain are much higher than a lightning strike... Hence the advice to seek safety as soon as possible while still riding safely...
You don't know the odds of being hit while riding in a storm - yet you somehow compare those odds to the odds of being hit by a car? Ok...
My point is the odds are not 1:250,000 if you're out there flying a kite with metal wire... those type of odds really aren't relevant and are so general as to only serve as false comfort for people.
I'm sure parachutists tell themselves the same thing! only 1:1,000,000 die in parachuting accidents... so it's safe for me. This completely ignores the real situation that many people will never parachute, that dramatically increases the odds of the parachutist dying. It is the same with lightning strikes. Get what i'm saying?