Timeline for How to protect myself when falling off the bicycle
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 18:01 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @DanielRHicks +1 for using your water bottle. Having to remove a fresh scab to clean the wound underneath was more painful than the initial shredding on coarse sand. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 13:17 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | One first aid item that many people have but don't think of is your water bottle. If it's reasonably pure water (and not energy drink or whatever) it is excellent for first-aid treatment of road rash -- cleans the wound and stops the sting. Add in a small bottle/tube of antiseptic and some gauze pads and tape and you have most of what you need. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 13:09 | comment | added | D.Salo | +1 for a small first-aid kit on longer rides. Outdoorsy shops often have readymade ones that do fine as long as you religiously replace whatever you use out of them. | |
| Jan 10, 2013 at 6:06 | history | edited | Zippy The Pinhead | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added first-aid kit suggestion
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| Jan 10, 2013 at 5:17 | history | answered | Zippy The Pinhead | CC BY-SA 3.0 |