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@AlexB
Just last week I had some twat on a motorbike right up my arse revving the engine like mad as I was trying to negotiate a section of my commute that combines an approach to a junction where the traffic pulls out on the left because it has no clear sightline down the road, underfoot (wheel?) is some badly repaired road surface and the lane is prone to cars entering from the right quite fast.
The safest place for me is well out into the second lane. This gives me space to see and be seen by cars from the left, is the smoothest road surface and avoids a sharp-edged drain cover. I hold this position until I've passed the junction and then it's back into the centre of the first lane.
clearly I'm going too slowly for the prick on the motobike, but having gotten so tight in behind me, I can't see past him to check for a clear lane to my left, nor can I tell why he hasn't just overtaken on the right (he could have). I held my line longer than I wanted to becuase I couldn't tell if he was going to undertake me on the left.
Needless to say he overtook with about an inch to spare (absolutely deliberately) on my right.
30 seconds later we're at the same set of lights side by side and he's just looking at me and revving the engine like mad.
Now 99.99% of the motorcyclists I encounter give me no grief at all, but this is the second time in 6 months I've had to put up with behaviour like this. Personally if I can have my bus lane to myself, I'd like to keep it that way.