What use is a first aid kit really?, if a wound is that severe a plaster or small bandage is not going to be much use.
If you’ve no first aid kit, where are you getting the plaster/bandage from?
Last summer we were riding out in the Borders and my buddy split his shin on a daft little rock. Lucky we’d some of those steri-strips, otherwise the ride I’d been canned as it just wouldn’t stop bleeding.
And on a winter night ride late last year another face-planted and it took the contents of 2 first aid kits to keep his face together until we could formulate a plan to go get a car to the nearest point to get him off the hill.
But, I rode the GT7 with just a bottle (pump and mini-tool), as I was never more than 10 mins from the car plus Marshalls every few miles who could summon help.