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[Twolanerider]

The problem is the HELMETS!!!!   Look, both of the riders struck by lightning were wearing helmets!!

Both riders were also wearing clothes.  So it's not just the helmets.  Obviously this suggests that everyone ride naked !  

[Twolanerider]

There was one hell of a stike that same day, right in front of us, when we were leaving Mt Evans that we saw after Bret and Nikki had to go back with the keys.  Nowhere to go though, if you were trying to avoid it you only had trees all around the wouldn't have been any place to be either so I guess you just keep ridin' [smiley=nixweiss.gif]

WFP and his lovely wife and I saw a couple of big bolts relatively close just before we were visited by a few minutes of hail 90 minutes or so after leaving Mt. Evans.  Personally I'd have let the lightning bounce around all day long if it somehow meant the hail stayed home.

[Crawdaddy]

You might have something there.  I have never heard of a naked rider getting hit by lightning.

[spydglide]

WFP and his lovely wife and I saw a couple of big bolts relatively close just before we were visited by a few minutes of hail 90 minutes or so after leaving Mt. Evans.  Personally I'd have let the lightning bounce around all day long if it somehow meant the hail stayed home.

Hurts, doesn't it?  Did your bike receive any damage?   [smiley=nixweiss.gif] spyder

[Twolanerider]

Hurts, doesn't it?  Did your bike receive any damage?   [smiley=nixweiss.gif] spyder

Nah, none of it was big stuff.  The only real problem was that some dipstick (and I won't mention names to avoid embarassing anyone) actually got caught in that hail storm and another brief one the next day without a helmet on.  Divots man, divots.

[MYCVO]

wouldn't have mattered about nothing.. it was his time.. he went out riding and there are a lot of other ways to go that are way worst! God rest brother!

[Steve_G]

When you are riding in a storm and there's lightning, sometimes all you can do is pray.  But, like Bobby Hill (from King of the Hill) says, "Prayer usually doesn't work".  -Steve