than other frame materials?
2 hours of unbroken sunshine, then within seconds torrential rain, thunder,lightning and flooded roads. riding across a harvested field with me the tallest thing for 1/2 a square mile on a steel bike wasn't a daft idea was it?
Same happened to me in the middle of the moors a few weeks ago. Bit intimidating, isn't it.
Done wonders for my average speed. Haha.
never been faster on a SS uphill across that bridleway before!
interesting weather today, do steel bikes attract lightning more...than other frame materials?
didn't this come up a few weeks ago?
i thought the answer was:
No - the main factor affecting/attracting lightning strikes is height relative to surroundings.
so, riding a bike across a field makes you the highest point = WHAMMO!
(and aluminium is a better electrical conductor than steel)
Rubber tires on groud should be alreet
(and aluminium is a better electrical conductor than steel
oh no!, better remove the tin foil under helmet shield then! 🙂
Rubber tires on groud should be alreet
Hmmm, well if the lightning can jump to the ground through a few km of air I'm sure it'll cope with a few inches of rubber.
So are car tires but they say your safe in one of them? still im not going to sit on my bike in a storm to find out!
you're relatively safe in a car because the metal body carries the current around you, not because the tyres are made of rubber.
your homework: google 'Faraday cage'
So are car tires but they say your safe in one of them? still im not going to sit on my bike in a storm to find out!
A car protects you in a different way (so long as you're not touching any metal inside).
Bike tyres will be useless.
Yes - you may well die!
re the car thing, read up on faraday cages. A bike isn't one.
Rubber tires on groud should be alreet
Because in the middle of a thunderstorm there won't any other factors like water will there 😀
I was surprised you didn't weather it out in Tardebigge cafe RD. I saw you as you were riding off just as the rain and thunder started throwing down.
there wasn't any cake 🙁
They do a cracking sausage & tomato sandwich though - I was there a couple of hours before after my ride 😉
yes the sarnies did look delicious, i'm trying to lose weight though #flabloss
Whilst riding a few years ago, lightening struck a mobile phone mast I had just cycled past.
Nearly shat myself,
Have never cycled down a hill so fast in my life.
Sometimes its good to know your alive.
Wouldn't put [i]much[/i] money on it but I would have thought the distances involved between a thunder cloud and the ground would make the whole "in a field half a mile from the nearest [i]really [/i]tall thing" pretty irrelevant....
Wouldn't put much money on it but I would have thought the distances involved between a thunder cloud and the ground would make the whole "in a field half a mile from the nearest really tall thing" pretty irrelevant....
I was 20ft from a JCB that got hit, it was 15ft from a telegraph pole and in the shelter of a hill. Made on e hell of a bang
...I would have thought the distances involved between a thunder cloud and the ground would make the whole "in a field half a mile from the nearest really tall thing" pretty irrelevant...
mad isn't it? but golf courses offer plenty of evidence:
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What tyres for a thunderstorm? Probably fat bike ones for the best protection!