[Closed] Where can I buy that TDF-style gravel rash bandage?

Have a look for Melolin or other low adherence dressings - they do a good job of not sticking.

You're wanting this to achieve 'the TDF look' aren't you. 😛

Grum has summed it up..

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I'd use Melolin or similar, and keep it covered, and so moist, for longer than you'd think. I think a scab is seen as a hinderance to healing now.
Not a wound care expert so happy to be corrected.

I'm currently sitting in my office in the only short-sleeved smart shirt and shorts I own: A bright red Quiksilver Hawaian shirt and Alpinestars board shorts. I look a bit ridiculous!
The TDF look would be a bonus, the story of how I got my injuries is getting better every time I am asked...

not sure if these are the type your after ?
http://astore.amazon.com/iendure-20/detail/B000ODY90A
if not most vets, or equestrian shops will sell low tack compression bandages. might have to put up with nice day glow colours though.

the story of how I got my injuries is getting better every time I am asked...

Ok, I'll do it. How did you get your injuries then?

Ask when you're in the hospital. Last time I was in one they sorted me out with "falling off bike" supplies for a while after I commented how their dressing were so much more awesome than anything I could find. They may have taken pity on me for being in a bit of a state though.

Any chance of a pic of a TDF_style gravel rash bandage?

I got some spare tegaderm along with some blood monitoring kit a while back, it seems really good, does that whole colloidal encouraging healing thing with the plus-side of looking[i] incredibly[/i] manky.

couple of cans of this?
you should be aware that it might sting a bit...
[I'm not a doctor/ Elastoplast rep]

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Just ask nicely at the casualty for some spares.

It's likely to be a tegaderm type dressing though Menolin is crap no idea why our lot use it. I do get another supply for doing wounds though but forgot it's name, just a form of tedgagerm really.

Well, just got a normal stick-on with some antibiotics etc. I need to get a bike 1st aid kit together.

officialtob, you asked for it:

I found myself on the ground, looking back along the disused railway track, fighting for breath, a searing pain from my left elbow and knee made me wince. I lay there, my limbs heavy and my body shaking with shock, all the air knocked from my lungs, and only able to make terrible gurgling and gasping noises. I seemed unable to draw the slightest breath. I was concerned that Mrs D might think I was seriously injured but to speak seemed an immense task. I urged the words from deep in my diaphragm: 'b a d l y... w i n d e d'. I imagined that she was hurrying towards me, some of her initial fears hopefully allayed by my desparate gasped words of explanation.
Seconds passed, that to my stunned mind, seemed like minutes. Still, no-one came to my aid.
I managed to move my arms and I pushed at the unforgiving, sharp, granite gravel. The fog in my brain cleared a little and I sat up, still dazed and unsure of myself.
I surveyed a tranquil, pastoral scene. The sun was still shining in the Spring afternoon, the air was warm, fragrant and moist. Small echoes of birdsong passed amongst the relics of the ancient Caledonian forest that fringed the old trackbed upon which I was sprawled. I looked back from whence I had ridden. I looked next towards my intended destination. I could see for half a mile in each direction but the landscape was devoid of humans. Which concerned me greatly. Only about 2 minutes ago or less I was demonstrating to my riding companion how lifting oneself of the saddle and pedalling whilst standing up could be a great help to relieving a tired gluteus maximus. I had, however, proceeded then to demonstrate sprinting whilst in the same riding position.
That had literally been my downfall. In the midst of a forward stroke from my left leg, my left foot had unclipped from my SPD pedal and caused my body to hurtle towards the ground at speed, no longer supported by my Inbred 29er.
I remained seated upon the warm, hard surface, looking around for some rational explanation. My bicycle lay over on the opposite side of the rough, black-topped lane. The surface was pitted with small craters where my vehicle had scoured it’s path to where it lay, the rear wheel still turning slowly with the momentum of the impact.
I needed to end this mystery! I looked again along both directions of the trackbed. Surely she had seen my fall and stopped immediately. She could not have possibly ridden out of sight, unless I had been unconscious but even then… Having gained use of my lungs once more, I feebly called out her name.
A distant murmur returned. I called again! It was her voice, but it seemed to be emanating from the trackside heather itself. I heaved myself unsteadily to my feet and looked over in the direction of the sound. I then saw a flash of bright purple from behind the heather. It was Mrs D! She was lying within a small ditch just over the side of the trackbed. Her own bicycle was lying a short way back along the same trench. She seemed to be immobile. Her helmet-clad head was underneath the lower wire of an old railway-style fence. I rushed over as fast as my bruised body could move.

To be continued…

Exhausting stuff this creative writing!
Basically, as I fell, my bike went right, knocking Mrs D and sending her off the side of the trackbed into a small ditch. I was unaware of this consequence because I was too busy flailing along on my chest/elbow/knee. So was genuinely suprised to find myself 'alone' after the crash!
She has a bit of bruising.
So much for a quiet ride on a disused railway track. It's safer hurtling down rocky gullies it seems!

You cock

🙂

is it this you want?

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/rocktape-5cm-wide-tape-5m-roll/

Just wait until it gets infected then fire a honey dressing on it.

The stuff you're after is called surgifix tubular bandage.

Hydrocolloid bandage? failing that if it's not to big a Compeed works too.

G Lupton has it.

sweepy - Member
I'd use Melolin or similar, and keep it covered, and so moist, for longer than you'd think. I think a scab is seen as a hinderance to healing now.
Not a wound care expert so happy to be corrected.

Would love it if anyone with a bit of knowledge could comment on this. Split my knee open 4 weeks ago. Didn't get it stitched (because I'm a fool) and was told by my GP's clinic to let it dry out and scab over. Still hasn't healed properly under the scab and I reckon on at least another two weeks before I'm back on a bike. Was I given shoddy advice?