Originally Posted by ChainRing
All I have to say is, being in a lightning storm bike or no bike your nutz! Ive seen cars get struck on the radio antenna, so dont think for a minute itll strike the largest thing around. On the motorcycle board Im a member of, we had a member get struck and killed riding down the highway. It killed him instantly and burned the bike to the ground. Just beacuse your on a bicycle or on foot dosent mean it cant happen (as stated by earlier thread!)
Cars are 99% safe the 1% that isnt isnt from direct strikes. Think being with in a few feet of a tree that gets hit. The shock wave from the strike can do some masive damage. Cars in them self (metal cars) protect because when they do get struck the surge goes through the cars metal and away from you. Same rules apply thoguh if your touching metal of the car ie windows post etc you can get hit. Thats no diffrent than a downed powerline. If you see one and cant stop from hittign it let loose of the wheel make sure your feet are not on the pedals and hope you coast over.
Its easy to make a car near 100% safe though. Gett a old set of jumper cables and atach that to something on the frame/under side in direct contack with a body pannel. ( a frame stub works greaat) leave the wire bare and dragging the ground. Now when lighting strikes the car it will def find a path to the ground and your protected even more.
But realy if in a car dont worry about the chance youll get hit and injoy natures fireworks
