<snip>I find if you simply keep the regular training going for long enough, it becomes a habit. You just do it, without having to find a reason to.<snip>
This! Particularly commuting, I just get on with it. When I consider my riding and what I want to do I really don't consider skipping/changing my commuting, the only way I consider it alongside other riding is in the accumulation of fatigue.
Even now, not feeling 100% and trying to fight off some illness - I'll just skip my midweek turbo ride, continuing to commute (even when I could take the car).
what is the concensus on best colour for fluo hi-viz wear ? have ordered a few French standard EN 1150 gilets from Amazon.fr
they all have night/white reflective panels, but I think fluo red/orange is better compromise for both dusk/day and night visibility than yellow ? ... didn't choose the Rapha pink
I wouldn't be overly concerned, all of them are eye catching which is what you need during the gloomy dusk/sunrise. Obviously during pitch black the reflective panels are the most important part - the colour doesn't really come into it.
Interestingly, where I work the guys loading lorries (PPE required 24/7) go for orange as they're handing trees/plants in the dusk so say it stands out more against foliage. The rest of the outside nursery wears yellow. Visitors and office staff (including me) have company issued orange.
In the UK we don't see it too uniform but general building sites can have a requirement for different colour between trades, more commonly hard hats but I have experienced it being vests on restricted access sites (military/medical/etc). Think Blue for plumbers/heating, bricklayers/general workers yellow, carpenters/electricians green with management/visitors in orange. Forestry seems to be orange too. White helmets for planners/architects/some managers/medical.
On the road I'd go for orange or yellow, my
go to commuting gilet is a Castelli Perfetto in fluo yellow. My
high-viz/night jacket is a Proviz 360 which is more of a light grey which reflects pure white (and goes whiter in rain), I used to wear a
Hump blue gilet with large reflective areas for my night-time riding but I do less of that now (outside of commuting basically none). These days I tend to have brighter (& more) lights so my protective wear is more for visibility in dawn/dusk - when my lights are less effective.
If I was doing a long ride at night I'd probably opt for the Proviz 360, it is utterly extreme in it's reflectivity and you don't see many of them around, but then that's what you want - to utterly stand out! It almost gets better the darker it gets!
Wiggle/DHB do their own range of similarly reflective jackets now, I'd probably opt for one of those as the Proviz isn't great as a 'jacket'. It's not well designed for the riding position, the inner mesh layer moves around/bunches and the rear rides up. The DHB jackets I've had are better designed (
the EQ2.5 was an amazing jacket!).
Material colour is not worthwhile worrying about so just go for the colour you personally like the look of the most.
This. As long as it's eye catching. I really have a 'gripe' against all the cycling kit designed for 'winter riding' which is blocks of dark/black colour with little or none reflective. We live in Europe, not on the equator!
Shame the rider isn't very fast!
The freehub on the 350s seemed really quiet when I was out, could detect a nice bit of whoosh from the rims at time but way quieter than my ancient Planet-X wheels.
You're doing well, saw a couple of your Sufferfest's pop up on my Strava feed the last month or so!
Playing with the 350 I thought it was quite a loud freehub, quite typical of DT Swiss? Not that quiet?!
hope I don’t meet any stairs today.
