Bike First Aid Supplies

[Tokie]

I especially would encourage you all to include Benadryl - it will help reduce pain and inflammation from bee stings (or other stinging insects). I usually take ibuprofen and Benadryl as soon as I can when I get a bee sting. It helps. tokie

[jessmarimba]

Not so much first aid - but a good idea, at least when mountain biking or road riding in remote places (*ahem* mountains of CO where phone reception sucks) - carry a whistle or flares or some other way of attracting attention. If you wreck on an unpopular trail or go over an embankment beside a road, you want someone to find you!

[Catrin]

Not so much first aid - but a good idea, at least when mountain biking or road riding in remote places (*ahem* mountains of CO where phone reception sucks) - carry a whistle or flares or some other way of attracting attention. If you wreck on an unpopular trail or go over an embankment beside a road, you want someone to find you!

Good idea this - most of where I road-ride has terrible cell reception. There isn't much in the way of embankments around here, but of course that changes in southern Indiana where I will be riding my mountain bike and doing some hill road-training. I will add a whistle to my list.

[owlice]

Acorn whistles are really loud; this is one of those "things one learns how to do as a kid" that I think is great to know, because you can do this with anything of the same sort-of shape, from bottle caps to .... well, acorns! And they are LOUD.

[ttaylor508]

+1 on carrying band-aids and wipes. Just took a good spill at mile 32 of our 100 mile ride this weekend, no band-aids in my bag. Luckily there were three cute fireman pumping gas where I crashed and they were kind enough to fix me up. One note, the band-aids are useless unless you are able to clean the area with wipes or something as they won't stick to sweaty sunscreened skin. Also, I am going to pack a variety of sizes (especially large ones) as the standard band-aid would have done nothing to help as the wound was too big.