Nothing scares a cyclist more than the whoosh of air when a bus passes too quickly and too close. Or a bus overtaking and pulling straight back in again, forcing the cyclist up the kerb.

Nothing annoys a bus driver more than a cyclist, at night and without lights, swerving into the bus's path without signalling or even looking.

In fact, most bus drivers and cyclists are courteous and careful. And although there are always a few who spoil it for the rest of us, instead of getting angry, Cyclox made - a DVD.

Bikes & Buses is a DVD featuring two films - Trading Places and In Their Own Words. Ask any cyclist in Oxfordshire what their biggest problem is and the answer comes straight back - buses. And in the city, cyclists can turn the hardest of drivers into a sobbing wreck. Cyclox commissioned the films in an attempt to defuse this conflict.

Trading Places follows a bus driver, Andy, as he cycles along Oxford's busy Cowley Road. He is shocked by the speed and proximity of passing vehicles, and at how often vehicles cut him up.

Helmet-camera work shows you how little attention some drivers pay. If he'd known how to position himself better (not too near the kerb), he might have had an easier ride. He is a prime candidate for cycle training, which Cyclox now offers (see www.cyclox.org).

Trading Places also features Clare Symonds, who produced the films. Armed with a provisional bus licence, she went out for the day in a Stagecoach bus. A car driver for years, she found driving a 30-tonne behemoth eye-opening. Visibility, width and stopping distances are different than in a car. Cyclists don't realise how hard it is to control a bus in narrow streets, filled with apparently suicide-mission cyclists.

In Their Own Words uses street interviews to allow Cowley Road cyclists and bus drivers to make their point.

The Bikes & Buses films aim to foster understanding and promote respect between cyclists and bus drivers - and there's something in there for us all: "Better to arrive 20 minutes late in this life than 20 years early in the next" is my favourite quote.

Bus companies will use the films as part of their training programmes. Cyclists are a harder bunch to reach, so the Oxford Mail has uploaded Bikes & Buses to its website, oxfordmail.co.uk/media/video. In Their Own Words can be shown on a loop in bike shops.

Cyclox, with the Oxford Mail, Stagecoach, Oxford Bus Company and Thames Travel, is launching Bikes & Buses tomorrow from 6-7.30pm at the Regal, 300 Cowley Road. Whether you're a cyclist or a bus driver (or both), you are invited.

We'll be showing clips from the films while you enjoy a drink and exchange experiences. The Regal is even offering a valet cycle parking service (£1).

The Oxford Mail's Jeremy Smith will host a debate between cyclist and bus company representatives, with questions from the floor. Come and have your say and hear the experts' views. Oh, and grab a copy of the DVD while you're there.