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Offline Stormer

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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2006, 12:32:26 PM »
"Motorcycles and Lightening, very, very Frightening! Sing! Galleleo, Galleleo, Figaro!"  Jeez! we're poetic today!


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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #26 on: June 26, 2006, 07:42:16 PM »
Tires will conduct electricity. Why? The rubber is heavily loaded with carbon (which is conductive). It was dicovered long ago that adding carbon to vulcanized rubber makes the rubber much more durable. If the tires didn't contain carbon, they'd wear down like a pencil eraser and "erase" themselves after only a few hundred miles. Some extremely old cars have white tires- before this was discovered.
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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #27 on: June 26, 2006, 08:02:09 PM »
The company that I used to work for insisted that we stand on "insulating" rubber
while working on among other things lasers, so we chased around and found a large
piece a half inch thick....used it for years.  When the project ended, a tech cut up the
rubber to use on his work bench and one day happened to lay the probes from an
ohmmeter on it..........dead short.  :o  That piece of rubber probably created a better
path to ground then standing on bare concrete.   ::) Woops.   ;D

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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #28 on: June 27, 2006, 09:00:59 AM »
 We just gotta be careful when those dark CB's(Cumulonimbus) start to roll in. Maybe find decent shelter.

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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #29 on: June 27, 2006, 07:52:01 PM »
The local news this morn was showing a 18" x 8" hole in the asphalt.   

Sure it was lightining, it could have been a sohc blowing the drive chain  ;D

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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #30 on: June 27, 2006, 11:33:05 PM »
Yes, it's not the tires which save you from lighting it's the steel cage that the lighting go's through. Then through the suspension parts and into the tires which are the only part of the car that touches the ground. Therefor grounding the lighting strike. Convertibles, motorcycles, ATVs and bicycles are NOT SAFE from lighting. No matter how much rubber you got!
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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #31 on: April 23, 2009, 08:28:02 PM »

its a question that why it not mix both of this two?we getting to mad to play it..



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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #32 on: April 23, 2009, 09:49:59 PM »
Zombie post!!!

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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #33 on: April 24, 2009, 03:49:03 AM »
great, one more thing to dodge on the road
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Re: Motorcycle and lightning don't mix
« Reply #34 on: April 24, 2009, 04:40:24 AM »
Lightning being stopped by a few inches of rubber between the rims and ground is a myth.  Read this....
http://www.weatherimagery.com/blog/rubber-tires-protect-lightning/