Show safer lightning cods each day adds some new virtues to the long list of those already credited to the pneumatic the latest of these is that the wheels of 4 bicycle encircled by a band of india rubber and dry air which is a perfect insulator the rider is completely insulated from the earth and consequent lyrl impervious to the attacks of the electric fluid thus day by day it becomes more and more a fact that life without a pneumatic tire is neither safe nor worth having As the chances of a roan on a bicycle being struck by lightning have been carefully calculated to be about one in a billion pays the wheel there will of course be some pessimists who will deny that this newly discovered virtue of the pneumatic as a lightning insulator amounts to very u uch |