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Was waiting along side a bus for an ambulance to go past. I was to the left of the bus but in an adjacent lane, and we are a right hand turn filtering into a two lane road that goes up to Temple Meads, surrounded by roadworks.

Ambulance goes past, I pull away and immediately get honked by the bus, utterly confused as to why, I am a couple of metres away from him on the outside of a right hand turn. Get into the two lane road. Traffic lights ahead and some cars in the right hand lane, I am on the left of the left hand one. At this point I sorta know what is coming. Sure enough the bus driver I somehow annoyed catches me and decides to overtake me. Thing is he like me is turning left into Temple Meads and he is running out of road. He's rage-overtaking and starts to indicate he is moving over to the left. At this point he is maybe three-quarters past me. I get a blast of the red mist because he is being a massive douche so hold both my pace and my line. He honks again because he can't move over to the left because I am there and eventually has back off.

Bit dicey playing chicken with a bus but fuck him, I do not see what I did to annoy him and his overtaking was purposely intimidatory. Plus there are signs saying no overtaking cyclists in the roadworks. Really wanted to stop and ask him a) why the fuck he honked to start with and b) as a professional driver why he decided to overtake me so dangerously and pointlessly, but I would have missed my train.

Fuck Bristol buses, 4 sketchy overtakes from them and counting.