Originally Posted by genec
All cyclists appear to be in a different social class than motorists... we are after all riding bikes, not driving cars. To a motorist, that means "different."
My point is: only cyclists that upset motorists' equilibrium are thought about at all; cyclists that are "not in their way" are irrelevant to most motorists.
In this situation, as described in the news article (I have not seen the video) it appears that the cyclist made numerous efforts to disturb the equillibrium of the bus driver, if not deliberate attempts to provoke a confrontation.
To head off a nutty rant by one of the three ignoring monkeys, who may be peeking, deliberatly taking action to be "noticed" does not have any known benefit of protecting cyclists from hyped up risks of "dangerous drifting."