Re: Road Positioning
The official IAM view on offsiding, or "Advanced Positioning" as they like to call it is that it should not be encouraged, however accept it if it is used safely and appropriately.
To those riders (and police officers) who say they never "offside" I always ask how they ever manage to overtake anything. They usually then start to come out with explanations about how they only overtake where they can see it is safe, there is nothing coming the other way and where they can still return to their side of the road and stop in the distance they can see to be clear. I then tell them that that is exactly the same set of circumstances that I would use to justify offsiding. In fact, one of the sweetest overtakes you can have is where you time it just right so that you slot the overtake in at just the point where you would have been following your view across the offside anyhow, always allowing of course for the possibility that the vehicle being overtaken may try to "straightline" as well.
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