In Utah you have the right to choose to wear a helmet when you are riding your motorcycle as long as you are 18 years old.  I think your decision to wear or not wear a helmet is up to you - you alone - not the legislature!  However...... if you are going to wear a helmet you should consider using the best helmet and that would be the new Lazer SuperSkin Motorcycle Helmet.

It is important to note that in 67% of all cases the head is affected in a motorcycle accident and, according to the European COST 327 helmet study concerning motorcyclist safety, “rotational acceleration was identified as a principal cause of head injury”.

In order to understand how this phenomenon occurs, you should be aware that the brain is not fixed to the inside of the skull and the brain linings but that it floats, immersed in cerebrospinal fluid.  In fact, the skull and the brain can be compared to a hollow globe that encloses a gelatinous sphere, the brain matter, which floats within the bony walls in a whole network of membranes and elastic cables (blood vessels, tissues etc).

Any impact causes instantaneous pivoting of the head, to a greater or lesser degree. Of course, the brain mass follows the rotational movement of the skull, but with a slight time delay. Kinetic energy results in the brain undergoing a rotational to-and-fro movement inside the skull.

And as described previously, this happens within the first 15 milliseconds following the impact.  Clearly the violence of this rotational movement within the skull can instantaneously cause the tearing of blood vessels and nerve fibers inside the brain.  This phenomenon, called “intracranial shearing” by doctors, is the cause of serious and inoperable injuries leading to serious disabilities (coma, paralysis and various other disorders) and all too often, death.

With the Lazer SuperSkin Motorcycle Helmet the rotational forces are decreased and the brain is saved!

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