Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

calling out bad drivers (busses)?

This morning I was zipping along in the cycle lane (all clear ahead of me) when a bus accelerated past me and immediately cut across my path breaking hard to stop at a bus stop. A bit of evasive action and swerving around the bus into a busy lane of traffic (thankfully there was a small gap) and everything was fine. But, had it not been for the lucky timing of a gap in the traffic things could have been a lot worse. As I wen't past the bus I gave a quick exasperated slap on the driver's window and then stopped at the next bus stop and took a photo so that I could identify the offending vehicle.

In the interests of self preservation what were you doing close enough to be overtaken by a bus with a bus stop so close by? I hope this doesn't sound pompus but I always bang on to trainees about lookng out for bus stops up ahead. If there is one there check over your shoulder for the accompanying bus to follow. You have three choices pull in and let the bus go knowing you'll have to pull out to pass it or pull out and keep it behind you or IF safe and possible move over into the next lane without anyone having to slow.

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...

This. Just a little aknowledgement goes a long long way.

Plastic Po-Po here riding in the gutter, with very tired knog's not really making them show up in the dark. Maybe they were working undercover, fluoro and blue PCSO panels didn't help that argument though. Didn't even acknowledge my ting ting and hello as I passed them nice and wide.

Edit - yeah, they were trying to have a chat, but riding single file so front officer was talking over his shoulder all the way. What a mess.

What I've seen of their riding could only be described as a total joke. Beyond the uniform they're a liability unto themselves.

This morning, 0830hrs, from Parliament Square to Blackfriars Bridge, there was...

• the black lycra clad City worker who thought it was amazingly clever to cycle 3 inches off my rear wheel for the entire journey, before blasting away at Blackfriars Bridge?
  
  

What a bell. Worth gently slowing down to make the point?