How Do Fulmer Motorcycle Helmets Rate
At present Fulmer does not allow their helmets and other products to be sold online. Too bad! Because they offer a great line of products and of course we can still tell you how Fulmer motorcycle helmets rate. Arai, HJC, Icon, KBC, ScorpionExo, Shoei, and most Fulmer models all conform and are certified to the Snell M2000 and M2005 and most of the European manufacturers like Schuberth, Shark, or Vermar also conform to the ECE 22-05 standards. So how good is your helmet? Will it protect your noggin in a crash? Will it keep your brain safe and unscrambled? These might seem like questions you can easily answer after all you know the standards associated with your helmet and you paid big bucks for your quality helmet right? Well perhaps….the answers aren't as simple as you might think. Currently there is a heated dispute within the industry. Manufacturers are debating their reinforced fiberglass helmets with the expanded polystyrene shell and how still a helmet needs to be to provide adequate protection. The debate goes something like this. If a helmet will be less capable of preventing injury to the brain if it is too stiff but if it's too soft it won't be capable of protecting your brain in a violent crash. And that's where the debate comes in. In a perfect world you would know what type of accident was going to occur so you could pick the right helmet to wear. Too bad the world isn't perfect and crashes aren't planned but rather they are accidents so that means you will need to guess what type of protection you'll need. Understanding how your helmet works might be a good start. You see your brain could be compared to Jell-O. When pathologist remove a brain it has to be held in cheesecloth to keep it together. More information than you wanted to know? Well in order to understand how your helmet's going to protect your brain you need to understand your brain. Your brain floats around inside your skull in cervical spinal fluid and in the dura which is like a protective cocoon. When your skull hits something hard it stops almost instantly. Trouble is the brain keeps moving which means it collides with your skull. When that collision is really severe the brain becomes injured and bleeding and swelling on the brain can make it worse because there is nowhere for it got. This isn't good. Helmets are designed to reduce the chance of this ugly scenario. A helmet has tow parts the energy absorbing liner and the outer shell. The inner lining is made of polystyrene which is what's used in foam coffee cups. Outer shells are made of either fiberglass like Kevlar or carbon fiber or a resin fiber composite. The shells job is to protect you from abrasion but the real important part is the inner liner which absorbs all the energy in a crash. In a crash the outer shell instantly stops. Your head then collides with the inner liner and the liner is suppose to gently stop the head which means your brains will work as well after the accident as it did before. To minimize the G-forces on your brain you need to slow your brain over the longest distance you can. The perfect helmet would be 2 feet wide which no one is interested in wearing. So instead designers have used a denser foam to help achieve the perfect helmet in a size that is acceptable. The outer shell also absorbs impact and helps to keep your noggin safe. The two layers combine provide the ultimate protection for your head. And helmet manufacturers like Fulmer motorcycle helmets continue to strive to use technology to improve on helmet design.
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