Alexandros Varvounis and other motor cops share some advice and tips with readers in this installment of Motor School.

For this month’s Motor School, I thought it might be cool to reach out to a few of my motor officer buddies from around the country and task them with dispensing some rider-safety wisdom to the class. That?s not to say you haven?t gleaned substantial lessons from your time out on the range, but I think you would agree that the more hands we have, the more wells we dig, and the more water we drink. In other words, more ideas from more people is, well, more. And more is better when it comes to ideas we can employ to be safer on the motorcycle.

Speaking of more, I?m confident your neighbor Bob has loads more ideas, rituals, concepts, routines, and opinions than what we?ve assembled below, so think of these ideas as jumping-off points. What I don?t want you to do is hunt around to see if one of your foundational safety routines made the cut, only to lose your cool when you find that it didn?t. Instead, challenge yourself to find something useful here. My expectation is that some of this will be new information and some will be old news, and that?s absolutely fine. After all, this isn?t your first rodeo.
Alexandros Varvounis, Metropolitan Police, Washington, D.C.

The District of Columbia?s Alexandros Varvounis lives on a steady diet of police motor competitions and endless traffic details. It?s harder than it looks.

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