Saw a couple of posts on another sight about this.
So much for the old “Rubber tires will protect you.”
Motorcyclist Dies After Lightning Strike
Gary Missi Was Hit While On U.S. Highway 36
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One time I was riding on the plain just to the north of Puli, and a huge lightning storm started. It was quite scary as I was one of the highest points for quite a way around! I tucked my head down and carried on riding to Puli. Guess the sensible thing to do would have been to get off the bike and hunker down until the storm passed.
I worry about this every time I cross a Taipei bridge in a thunderstorm. The tires aren’t what protect you in a car anyway – it’s the metal cage around you (essentially aFaraday cage), if you’re in a car. So you have no protection on a motorcycle, as I understand it.
DB got it right . The rubber would have to be about 2 times the height of a car to stop a bolt. Its the shell of the car and the fact that it travels around the outside that saves you. You are safer in a wet car then a dry car too. The power travels in the easiest way around the outside of the car.
If you did have rubber tires that were big enough to save you then you would be in much worse trouble if the car is hit. The power would have no where to go.
That is the same link en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage that I posed on another thread. small web 