Road IDs- who uses one?

[MomOnBike]

Mine's on my shoe. My bike shoes go on, so does the ID. I put it there so I couldn't forget.

I do get grief from Younger Daughter, though, about my toe tag.

[Trek420]

I bought SKnot the ankle one, and he promptly lost it. Sigh.

Knott, get that jeenious boy a microchip He can't loose that. He is really smart, TE.

Dogtag type, I always wear it. Never know when I'll just wander off and forget where I was.

Side a) numbers of all the people who would care for my mutt. They in turn have family emergency numbers or I hope they do.

Side b) "don't tell me what I can't do"

Also have emergency numbers stored as I.C.E. in my cell phone.

[liberty]

Yup, me too. I have the shoe one and it is permanently velcro'd to my road shoes. And I also carry my cell phone with the ICE number in there.

[oxysback]

Hubby got ankle ones for both of us for Christmas. I wear mine every time I ride. It's very comfortable and gives me good peace of mind.

[horserider]

can someone please explain to me what ICE is for your cell phone?




horserider

[lizbids]

I *just* bought an ankle ID...thanks for the much-needed reminder!

[liberty]

ICE means In Case of Emergency. Basically it is your emergency contact phone number. I have two registered. One to reach my parents, the other to reach my brother. Instead of mine saying "mom and dad" in the registery it says "ICE". The emergency workers can scroll through your phone numbers and when they see "ICE" they know who to call about the emergency.

[Wahine]

can someone please explain to me what ICE is for your cell phone?




horserider

In Case of Emergency.

[Trek420]

Another good idea is to keep the P.OT.S. (that's plain ol' telephone service, folks) local numbers for police and medical of the town you live in and areas you ride in programed into the cell.

From your land line if you call 911 they know precisely where you are even if you can't speak (unless you have phone service on cable or VOIP).

But if I call 911 from my cell I reach highway patrol....in Sacramento....by the time they transfer me to Northern Ca Bay Area and a few more times closer and closer to the local dispatcher precious seconds can be lost.

Whether you need help or someone else does it's easy to do and could save a life.

You can find the local dispatchers number in your phone book.

[horserider]

i should add those to my cell phone. i also ride horses with a cell phone in the summer with a fix-a phone arm band, i keep the phone on vibrate or slient so i don't spook the horse.




horserider

[Aggie_Ama]

Now that I have a permanent address, I am going to order one. I am thinking I will get the ankle one. Anyone know how the wrist one for small wrists?

Trek- My cell phone actually called the local dispatch when my husband and I got firecrackers thrown at us. I need to store the non-emergency number for the crazy dogs I keep meaning to report.

[smilingcat]

if you go to roadid web site, they have a page showing you how to size your wrist.

I'm ordering mine soon. Been trying to figure out what I need to have on it like

No Penicillin, no cipro
GP: Dr xxxx, (310) xxx-xxxx
endo: Dr. xxxx, (310) xxx-xxxx
ICE: (310) xxx-xxxx

On my last accident 6 yrs ago, EMT was nice enough to call my house on his cell and told my housemate that it was XXX and I shoud go to Saddleback memorial hospital ASAP. I lost consciousness 3 or 4 times just in the ambulance. That's what I was told. I have no memory of the day of the accident nor for a week afterwards. No memory of CAT scans, MRI scans...Only thing I know of that day and days following are from what my friends told me and the shattered left collar bone and helmet. my right collarbone was shattered on yet another accident 17 years ago. My helmet was also destroyed in that accident.

SO WEAR A HELMET ALWAYS!!! AND CARRY AN ID ON YOU and not with you like in a seat pouch. I carried my id in the seat pouch but no one bothered to check. How the EMT got my house number I have no idea.

I get angry when I see people without a helmet.
Shawn

[Bad JuJu]

I've been wearing an ankle strap Road ID for probably a year now when riding, and I wear the wrist strap when riding my motorcycle. Also got DH one to wear on mc rides. Plus ICE on our cell phones. Doesn't hurt to have a couple of layers of information safety.

[lizbids]

All numbers listed will be considered emergency numbers, no? I mean, think about it: if someone is calling the number on your ID, it's probably an emergency!

[missymaya]

I've had my wrist road ID for about two years, when started to ride the road more and more. The thing that really got me to get one is that if I get hit by a car (knock on wood), I might get seperated from my bike, where I would normally carry my ID. If my ID and emergency contact info is on me where the EMTs would see it, m family can be contacted sooner and I can be ID'd sooner as well.