EA message from Brazil found its way to the Technik und Motor editorial team these days. According to reports from various news agencies, President Jair Bolsonaro was ordered to pay the equivalent of just under 90 euros for having participated in a motorcycle parade without a mouth and nose protection. Pictures showed a column of thousands of motorcycles on a street in São Paulo, Bolsonaro in the lead, as it should be for a man of outrage. What did not emerge very clearly from the agency reports: Was Bolsonaro’s offense in the fact that he rode a motorcycle without a mask? Or did he get the 90 euros paid for not covering his mouth and nose at the rally that followed? We would have liked a little more accuracy here. What speaks in favor of Bolsonaro is the fact that he, like all participants in the motorcycle parade “Let’s step on the gas for Christ”, wore a helmet.
Bolsonaro speaks against the fact that the helmet was a braincap, a kind of eggshell that only covers the top of the skull and brain and is widely not recognized as a protective helmet. Braincaps – the term no-brain-cap would be more appropriate – are often worn by the really cool with heavy cruisers and bad upper arms, which in turn does not fit the fact that Bolsonaro and Braincap sat on an extraordinarily good mid-range Honda. How do we bring this gloss to a happy ending? With the news about the high level of security awareness in our country. The Federal Highway Research Institute has determined that around 98 percent of motorized two-wheelers wear helmets. And the Chancellor has never been spotted with a braincap.
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