Plus it doesn't help to avoid potholes if your tailgating a bus, something you shouldn't be doing anyways if you value your life. Don't start going off on how you live in a big city and blah blah blah, I use to live in Los Angeles before there were bike lanes and paths and I had to ride the city streets even during rush hour, and I didn't have to tailgate vehicles of any kind. And if someone else wanted the space I left behind a vehicle, well guess what I did? I took out my 45 and shot the crap out of them...no I didn't do that silly, I backed off and let them take it, after all I'm on a bike not in a car, I will lose in the contact arena with a car.