Cycling Techniques

My first impression when I saw Eds pic is that it looked unnecessarily disruptive. I dont think riding in an assertive position necessarily equates to not allowing people past.

it look unnecessarily disruptive because there's no buses behind me at the time I took the photo, thereforth I'm able to take the full width of the lane itself, it's the motorcyclists that I find more of a problem than the buses.

Motorcyclists are able to filter through traffic almost as well as cyclists, so to slow them down and prevent them passing me at close proxy shouldn't be too much of a problem for them as they can easily join the traffic steam and back again in order to overtake me properly, giving me a car width as the Highway Code 167 stated.

buses are the least of my concern, as CTUK stated that we should work with the traffic to make everything go smoothly, my road position depend entirely on the stretch of the road, the timing (i.e. rush hour) and the location of each bus stop.

the route in picture Will correctly assumed is the Clapham one northbound from Clapham North tube station have huge amount of room for the bus to overtake me effortlessly, if there's a bus behind me, I often move back to the centre of the lane near the edge of the Smurfway to allow the bus a bit more room to overtake me while maintaining enough space between me and the kerbs should any incident occured.