Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

So you must always try to get as close to 20-30mph at all times to minimise problems with cars, whilst keeping it sub-5mph so that you never hit a moronic ped.

Alternatively you could ride out in the middle of the lane to give yourself time and space to react...

I hit a ped once, about 3 or 4 months ago, was coming up the inside of stationary traffic at about 10mph and he bounded from his front gate and right into the road less than a foot in front of me. My face took most of the impact as it went right into his shoulder. Now I preferentially filter on the right but if I do find myself on the left for whatever reason I move very slowly and try to find a gap between cars so I can get into lane. Basically, fuck the left hand side of the road. Srsly. It's a menace. It's full of obstacles and hazards. The classic hazard emerging from the left for car drivers is the little kid running out into the street from between two parked cars after their ball. I've never actually seen that happen IRL but it's the classic hazard anyway as it helps to train drivers to keep a safe distance from the left hand side of the road. Cyclists need to do the same thing or they're going to get every man and his dog jumping out on them.

People don't look, that's just life, and it's something that we've all got to just sack up and deal with. Sometimes people do look, but don't see, especially if the thing that's coming is a motorcycle or a bicycle, because they're small and they blend in more than you'd think. Every road user has to take responsibility for what they're doing, and there's no point in getting angry about it. When I hit my ped, he shouldn't have leapt out into the road without checking, but I shouldn't have been coming up a tiny gap in double digit speeds two inches from the curb. You can use your accidents to analyse what you could change to make them less likely to happen again.