Always good to have and hopefully you will never need it.

 

I've got one in the Ultra but don't have one in the Sportster all the time. The last time I rode the Sportster for a LD trip I had one with me, but after the trip was over I put it back in the EG. I've also got a small one in my car and truck. I suppose since I'm riding the Sportster as much or more than the EG this year I should probably get another one and leave it on the bike, even though all my rides so far on the Sportster have just been day rides or just commuting around town. A person can encounter an accident on short rides just as much as long ones I guess.

 

I carry two types of trauma kits- one for causing it, one for fixing it.
And, as noted previously, knowing what to do with either is just as important as having one or the other.

 

I bought a small first aid kit in CVS or Walgreens, it's a little zip up pouch. I added Zirtec/Claritin, extra aspirin, Prilosec, Aleve etc. I've had to use it several times for friends with cuts, burns, insect bites.

 

I carry this one with the bleed/cpr option.

https://www.chinookmed.com/01424/adventurer-kit.html

 

I too carry a kit with just essentials. But the tourniquet is a good idea. I'll look into that. My neighbor had a bike accident, hit a guard rail, cut a major artery and bled out before help could get to him. I hope i never have to use it!

 

Good idea but for some reason it never crossed my mind. Probably due to limited storage in my easy access bag. On long trips it would have to go in my dry bag and I would be dead before I could get to it.

 

One Full roll of Electrical tape.

Sorce

 

I've got Duct Tape. Works good as a band-aid and hair remover.

 

The most important component of a good fak isn't in the kit. It's in your head. I know a friend who bought a fak and brought it with him on a trip. When he needed it he had no clue what was in it. He literally dumped the contents out and began raking through it to see what he had. Not good.

I figure my fak needs to be customized to my needs and abilities. I bring a small selection of common bandage items, antibiotic ointment, tourniquet, tapes, sting relief, gloves, tweezers, and so on. Then come the common otc meds like ibuprofen, sudaphed, aspirin, benadryl, pepcid, and imodium. After that will be Rx meds like a Z-pack, Prednisone dose-pack, few Vicodin, Septra DS, and a couple others. I always include things for eye emergencies, like eye pads, irrigation wash, etc. It really should come down to what you think is right for you...especially anything unique. I have been known to have a migraine headache once in a great while, so my kit always has about 10 otc Excedrin Migraine tabs in it. You get the idea.

My kit has saved me ER visits on several long trips. For example:

While in Hawaii on the island of Molokai, I was hammered on the side of my head by a brown scorpion. The fak got me through it and I managed to avoid a trip to the ER.

I was in Alaska in 2009 when a severe case of ehrlichiosis (tick borne systemic bacterial infection) came to a head and put me down. Luckily I had an atb with me that worked, and luckily I started it in time. Otherwise I would have been flown to the hospital in Fairbanks.

Last September I clumsily cut my left index finger with a very sharp small axe. The cut was pretty deep, but clean. I knew exactly what to do and I did it. Things went okay with no infection and I once again avoided the ER. Today I have a nice clean interesting scar.