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How does magnetic shielding work?

I sorta get that it redirects something, but what does it redirect and can you control where it redirects it to?

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It is fine as long as it isn't a 2 stroke with premix gas on a long downhill.
so long as you don't over do it (eg change into 1st at 60mph or something) it's okay. Let go of the throttle and change down gradually.
no its actually the correct way to operate a bike when slowing imo . its hard on the transmission if you dont know how to properly shift a bike and bang the gears everytime yes .
As you suggest, the materials that can provide magnetic shielding work by redirecting the magnetic field. Magnetic materials do this by supporting the formation of a magnetic field and providing a preferred pathway for it to follow. These materials support the formation of magnetic fields by aligning their own magnetism with the field's (an alignment of their magnetic 'domains'). Where this happens the magnetic field follows the magnetic material instead of going through the air so the field is diverted rather than blocked. The strongest magnetic materials contain a high proportion of iron. Iron itself increases the strength of a magnetic field by about 700 times compared to air - ensuring magnetic field lines are diverted to follow a path through iron rather than through air.

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