The offside

[imbecile]

Ok, so my understanding of offsiding for vision (not apexing etc) is that it should only be done to keep vision that one already has, not to gain vision (I've also noticed that driving like this ensures that you take right handers in a perfect straight line, which can only be good for stability).

Obviously you shouldn't be swerving on to the right hand side yards before a left hander. But on a sweeping left hander, or even when there is a relatively tight left hander 400 yards down a straight piece of road I don't see the problem with it. Explain why I'm wrong!

[R_U_LOCAL]

imbecile said:

Ok, so my understanding of offsiding for vision (not apexing etc) is that it should only be done to keep vision that one already has, not to gain vision (I've also noticed that driving like this ensures that you take right handers in a perfect straight line, which can only be good for stability).

Obviously you shouldn't be swerving on to the right hand side yards before a left hander. But on a sweeping left hander, or even when there is a relatively tight left hander 400 yards down a straight piece of road I don't see the problem with it. Explain why I'm wrong!

I don't know - why are you wrong?

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

[StressedDave]

imbecile said:

Obviously you shouldn't be swerving on to the right hand side yards before a left hander. But on a sweeping left hander, or even when there is a relatively tight left hander 400 yards down a straight piece of road I don't see the problem with it. Explain why I'm wrong!

You aren't necessarily. I prefer the term 'to improve a view you've already got' rather than keeping a view. If you go offside and the view isn't significantly improved, then you might as well come back.

There is a risk attached. I dealt with a few accidents where an approaching vehicle has exited the left hand bend, seen the oncoming vehicle on the offside and voted with the steering wheel to their offside to avoid the oncoming car, just as said oncoming car moves back to the nearside. You get a 'nice' head-on and a fair bit of explaining to do...