Lightning can kill you while riding.

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dieziege · #11 Post by **dieziege** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:45 am

CNF2002 wrote:So if we all put little lightning poles on our bikes to be the highest point, we'd be safe?

AFAIK you also need a flux capacitor.

M109R · #12 Post by **M109R** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:36 pm

He died from the lightning strike not the crash. The bike wasn't messed up to bad at all.

Indred · #13 Post by **Indred** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:56 pm

I was riding my bike (when i shouldn't have) home from work one day and a rather large storm came out to play. I live about 8 miles from my work and i was not 100 feet from my house when a bolt of lightning hit about 200 meters in front of me. I would almost put my house on the line saying i felt some of it. It will be some time before i go ride in the rain again.

#14 Post by **KarateChick** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:10 pm

Where'd flynrider go? I thought he'd had a major tire/axle or some such problem on a trip AND got struck by lightning on that same trip!?! and was here to tell us about it.

Kal · #15 Post by **Kal** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:13 pm

I had been thinking it was oldnslo who got hammered by lightening on his bike...

Typically I can remember the story but I can't remember who it happened too!

mark bennett · #16 Post by **mark bennett** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:30 pm

Other than suicidal deer, Lightening scares the bejeezus out of me if caught out on the bike in a storm.

jstark47 · #17 Post by **jstark47** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 11:57 am

KarateChick wrote:Where'd flynrider go? I thought he'd had a major tire/axle or some such problem on a trip AND got struck by lightning on that same trip!?! and was here to tell us about it.

Here's a link to flynrider's lightning story

badfish89 · #18 Post by **badfish89** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:43 pm

just dont ride in the rain, or in the rainstorms with lightning.

qwerty · #19 Post by **qwerty** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:43 pm

Back in the olden days I was riding my 148cc SL100 cafe racer up I95 somewhere between Miami and Biscayne Park. I'm tooling along about 60mph in a moderate rain. All of a sudden I felt tingling on my skin, then lightning struck two streetlight poles at the same time, one on the right side of the road and one in the median. The poles were maybe 50 feet ahead of me. The noise was unbelievable, like a 155mm going off, times 10, one heck of a bang. One pole split lengthways like a bannan peel. The arm holding the light on the other went flying off into the darkness. My ears rang for days. I could smell the ozone as I went by. I pulled off at the next exit, but I wasn't smoking, so I headed over to US1 for the rest of the ride home.

ArcticHarleyMan · #20 Post by **ArcticHarleyMan** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:24 pm

My son & I rode to Milwaukee for the Harley 100th Anniversary in '03. We heard tell of one guy riding from SW USA got smoked by lightning somewhere in Central US. A day later, some other guy had a heart attack.