Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

Wow, there’s a lot of pent up aggression on this thread!

I’m just glad that when I accidentally clipped another cyclist the other day they accepted my apology and we spent the next half a mile laughing about what a tool I had just been.

Wouldn't have made much of a story when I got to work I suppose. Maybe I should have lamped him one for being in the way of my erratic steering.

Yes but it that acknowledgement you've done something wrong and apology that makes all the difference. I know I've had cars cause me to come off in the past and if they've acknowledged their mistake and apologised etc it's not bothered me as much - it's when some dickhead does something monumentally stupid but then has a go at you for pointing out their mistakes that makes my blood boil. I always remember seeing a cyclist undertake a left turning (and indicating) HGV and having a pop at me when I tried to discuss what he'd one might be a tad dangerous...